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- From: jcw@mti.sgi.com (J.C. Webber III)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Using variety of editors with elm
- Message-ID: <jcw.724992066@ecstasy>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:41:06 GMT
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- In <1h5fbvINNg8m@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> mgriffin@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Mark Griffin) writes:
-
- ->I have compiled elm to work with the vi editor, mostly because vi is my
- ->choice of editors. However, there are other users on our system that like
- ->emacs, or some even like etx (It's the editor in Writer's Workbench software).
- ->Anyway, is it possible to specify different editors when starting elm. Maybe
- ->an option or something. I really don't want to have several different
- ->compilations of elm just to be able to use different editors. What can I do?
-
- The solution I use is to set:
- editor = $EDITOR
-
- in your ~/.elm/elmrc file.
-
- And then set:
- setenv EDITOR /user/jcw/bin/vile
-
- in your .cshrc (notice my FAV editor is vile!).
-
- Have everyone set their environment variable EDITOR to their favorite
- editor, either in their .cshrc or .profile (if they use the bourne shell).
-
- Hope that helps.
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