how to set default editor in hugs 98 for win and linux

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak@knm.org.pl
4 Feb 2001 20:24:30 GMT


Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:17:34 -0000, andrew long <ap@long42.freeserve.co.uk> pisze:

> I've just started to use hugs in both the windows 98 and linux
> environments and wanted to assign notepad and kwrite as the default
> editors to their respective os'.

On Linux the standard method works: set EDITOR environment variable,
i.e. add
        export EDITOR=kwrite
to ~/.bash_profile (assuming your shell is bash). Many programs use
this variable.

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