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Randall W. Robinson rrobinson at ames.arc.nasa.gov
Thu Jun 16 00:28:13 AEST 1988


in article <4097 at fluke.COM>, strong at tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) says:
> 
> I would like to put something in my .mailrc file, so that I will automatically
> be in the vi editor when I invoke the mail program.  Currently, I have to type
> ~v every time.  Is there a way to do this?
> -- 
> 
> Norm   (strong at tc.fluke.com)

Try putting a  'setenv EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi' (or whatever the path
is) in your .login.  This should do it.

Randy

rrobinson at ames.arc.nasa.gov



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