Change default editor for yaourt

rocknrolf77 · 2010-07-04 09:51:11

How do I do it? I'm stuck with vim right now. And I don't want to learn vim, when nano is enough for me. Can't find anything by googling either.

Barghest · 2010-07-04 10:03:22

You can set the editor in the yaourtrc.

You can see a description via

man yaourtrc

Last edited by Barghest (2010-07-04 13:17:28)

bernarcher · 2010-07-04 10:50:03

Change the EDITOR line to "nano" in your /etc/yaourtrc file.

lastchancetosee · 2010-07-04 21:07:32

If you want to use nano as the default editor for all terminal-related stuff, add

export EDITOR="nano"

to your ~/.bashrc file.

Yaourt (like most cli programs) by default looks for the $EDITOR environment variable for your editor of choice. So if you change the value of that variable to 'nano', all those programs will use nano.

rocknrolf77 · 2010-07-05 19:59:34

Thank's. Everythings as it should be now.

Last edited by rocknrolf77 (2010-07-05 19:59:46)

schen · 2010-07-05 23:58:23

Remember to mark as solved.

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Change default editor for yaourt

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