TIN: How can I change editor startup options?

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3 total messages Started by Will Estes Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:37

#665

Author: Will Estes
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:37

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Using TIN, how can I specify the edit command to be used?  I need to
make sure that one of two things happen:
	1) my alias for vi is used instead of an absolute path to 
	/usr/ucb/vi
	OR
	2) I can supply my own startup string directly.  I need
	for the startup string to contain an environment variable,
	as in:
		vi -c "$VI_ARGS"

Any hints appreciated.

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com

Re: TIN: How can I change editor startup options?

#668

Author: Pope Clifton
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:11

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Set the environment variable VISUAL to the full path of the editor you
want, either in your .profile/.login (if you want it to apply to all
programs, not just tin) or in invoking tin, thus:

VISUAL=$HOME/bin/myvi tin

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Re: TIN: How can I change editor startup options?

#667

Author: Tom Middleton ; System Manager
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:04

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[ Thanx to Tom for letting me use his account ]

westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
:
: Using TIN, how can I specify the edit command to be used?  I need to
: make sure that one of two things happen:
: 	1) my alias for vi is used instead of an absolute path to 
: 	/usr/ucb/vi
: 	OR
: 	2) I can supply my own startup string directly.  I need
: 	for the startup string to contain an environment variable,
: 	as in:
: 		vi -c "$VI_ARGS"

In the present version neither of the above points are possible.

I may add parsing of env. variables withiN the editor string in a
future release so watch this space.

Iain

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