Hello:

I'm using kubuntu 7.04. My background is slack and redhat
and I have a preference for command lines, vim and midnight commander.
Let my previous platforms, I would like vim to the default editor
for Midnight Commander.

On my other systems, for both the user and root .bashrc, I include
the following lines:
export EDITOR=vim
then I uncheck the "Use Internal Edit" and "Use Internal Viewer"
items under Options->Configuration, save and all is good.

However, on this ubuntu, the same actions result in *nano* being
started.

Can anyone advise me how to enable vim on this machine?
thanks
tim

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On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:14:35 +0000, Tim Johnson wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I'm using kubuntu 7.04. My background is slack and redhat and I have a
> preference for command lines, vim and midnight commander. Let my
> previous platforms, I would like vim to the default editor for Midnight
> Commander.
>
> On my other systems, for both the user and root .bashrc, I include the
> following lines:
> export EDITOR=vim
> then I uncheck the "Use Internal Edit" and "Use Internal Viewer" items
> under Options->Configuration, save and all is good.
>
> However, on this ubuntu, the same actions result in *nano* being
> started.
>
> Can anyone advise me how to enable vim on this machine? thanks

I don't use mc, but maybe Ubuntu has modified it to use its alternatives
system. You can reconfigure your default editor using:
update-alternatives --config editor

HTH
Björn

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Björn Steinbrink wrote:
 
>
> I don't use mc, but maybe Ubuntu has modified it to use its alternatives
> system. You can reconfigure your default editor using:
> update-alternatives --config editor

Hi Björn:
That is the solution.
Thank you very much.
Tim

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Tim Johnson said:
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> Can anyone advise me how to enable vim on this machine?

Tim,
I see your answer has come.
Reason I'm writing is to compliment your post.
It had excellent elements:
OS and version
environment
what you've attempted and results
clearly stated goals

Thanks for the refreshing read !

--
sk8-365

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sk8-365 wrote:
> Tim Johnson said:
> <snip>
> 
>
> Tim,
> I see your answer has come.
> Reason I'm writing is to compliment your post.
> It had excellent elements:
>     OS and version
>     environment
>     what you've attempted and results
>     clearly stated goals
>
> Thanks for the refreshing read !

:-) And mighty thanks for the debian folks for honoring ubuntu questions.
cheers
tj

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