[Remind-Fans] WYRDRC editor

[Fintan Gaughan]

On 17/07/06, Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
> 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

Ah brilliant problem solved thanks Paul.
It did produce a blank result did a export Editor and added the
command to my .bashrc

Fintan