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Old 12-26-2004
Changing default editor
Redhat 9

I want to change my default text editor from vi to pico.
When I look in the .bash_profile or .bashrc I do not see the EDITOR variable. So how do I change the default permanently?
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Old 12-26-2004
In your .bashrc file
export EDITOR=pico

should help
 
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