Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ld.so 1.9.1 and glibc 2.0.1 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 31 Mar 1997 18:55:48 +0200 |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@analogic.com> writes:
> It doesn't know what "VISUAL" is. This is not in my environment, and does > not appear to have been set in the script. Although I am relatively new > at Unix (only 15 of the 20 years it's been around) and I'm learning new > things you are "supposed" to do practically every day, what is the > "VISUAL" environment to which your script refers? > > > # If they don't have a preferred editor set, then use > if [ -z "$VISUAL" ]; then > if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then > EDIT=vi > else > EDIT="$EDITOR" > fi > else > EDIT="$VISUAL" > fi
In the old days, EDITOR and VISUAL were set to
EDITUR=/bin/ed and VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi
(or whatever path).
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