[Remind-Fans] WYRDRC editor

[Paul Pelzl]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:59:57PM +0100, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> When i enter i get the folowing
> 
> Error when launching editor; configure a different editor in ~/.wyrdrc .
> 
> I cant find the .wyrdrc file so where am i going wrong?

The default wyrdrc file is located in /usr/local/etc/wyrdrc .  Recent
versions of this file use the standard environment variable EDITOR to
choose an editor.  Most likely you do not have this variable set (does
"echo $EDITOR" produce a blank result?).

You could create a customized ~/.wyrdrc file that specifies whatever
editor you want, but if the EDITOR variable is not set then the best
solution is to go ahead and give it a value (many other unix programs
will expect this).  Assuming you are using the bash shell, the command
would be

   export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim

(or /usr/bin/emacs, or whatever).  Add this command to ~/.bashrc if you
want it to run every time you start a new terminal instance.

Paul