On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Mark Duling wrote:
"Daniel J. Luke" <dluke@geeklair.net> writes:
EDITOR is an environment variable that port uses to decide which text editor to invoke when you type 'port edit foo'
With bash, you'd want to do something like 'export EDITOR=nano' (or vi or emacs or whatever)
We could probably have it default to nano if no editor is specified, though.
Oooh. That would be nice for people who are new to Unix, and also for us who assist them. Could that be put on the TODO list, wherever it is?
Or it could be filed as an enhancement bug :) -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dluke@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+