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Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sat Nov 24 13:33:09 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Steven Stern wrote:
>   
>>  vi /etc/group
>>
>>     
> While it probably doesn't make any difference on a single user
> system, you should get in the habit of using vigr instead of vi for
> editing the group file, and vipw for editing the passwd file. This
> helps insures that only one program at a time modifies the files.
> Also, if you  have set EDITOR, they will use the editor of your choice.
>
> Mikkel
>   
    I use joe because I learned Wordstar years ago and it is thus 
simple. And vi and all the variations are hard for me to remember. So 
can I set joe as my EDITOR? Sounds like a bash call...



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