From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 17:30:25 CEST
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:11:02PM +0200, Jef Knoors nicely wrote:
>
> Please let me suggest an enhancement:
>
> Due to the fact that most people prefer using the same editor throughout
> the system and do everything with 'their' editor (and taking into account
> that the Gurus who wrote 'The pragmatic programmer' also suggest to use
> only *one* editor but use this one tool *good*) I would prefer to have
> kind of a ''general-editor-switch'' in the Setup that would do two things:
>
> a) change the meaning of the 'vi' command by creating a link to
>
> - vi
> - ae
> - mc -e (Midnight Commander's text editor "Cooledit v2.1")
>
I do not know very well mc; but a link in this case do not work.
I have to create the /usr/bin/vi *script*:
#!/bin/sh
. /setup/cnf/misc.cnf
case $EDITOR in
vi) exec elvis $@;;
ae) exec ae $@;;
mc) exec mc -e $@
esac
Michele
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