[Terri]

I know how to use telnet on the Linux web servers that I run, but Mac OS X is just different enough that I'm having a few problems.

I've set the default shell to bash since that is what I use with my web servers, but how can I permanently change my text editor from vi to pico as the default? Vi just confuses the hell out of me.

I tried,

bash-2.05a$ EDITOR=pico
bash-2.05a$ export EDITOR
bash-2.05a$ echo $EDITOR

But that only changes it per session.

Also I loaded up crontab for my user, crontab -e, and set up a job, but it doesn't run.

## Open DataBackup so that it can do it's thing
open /Applications/Data\ Backup\ X/Data\ Backup\ X.app

If I type, open /Applications/Data\ Backup\ X/Data\ Backup\ X.app, it does open DataBackup, but crontab isn't opening it.


Thanks for any help

[ranga]

Originally posted by Terri:
How can I permanently change my text editor from vi to pico as the default? Vi just confuses the hell out of me.

I tried,

bash-2.05a$ EDITOR=pico
bash-2.05a$ export EDITOR
bash-2.05a$ echo $EDITOR

But that only changes it per session.

If you put these commands in your ~/.profile, bash will read and execute them on startup. Try the following:

$ echo 'export EDITOR=pico' >> ~/.profile

Now when you start a new terminal your editor should be set to pico instead of vi.

HTH,

--ranga

[Terri]

Originally posted by ranga:
If you put these commands in your ~/.profile, bash will read and execute them on startup. Try the following:

$ echo 'export EDITOR=pico' >> ~/.profile

Now when you start a new terminal your editor should be set to pico instead of vi.

HTH,

--ranga

Thanks
That worked great.

BTW I figured out what was wrong with my crontab file. I forgot to put the path to open.

This works,
30 1 * * * /usr/bin/open "/Applications/Data Backup X/Data Backup X.app