[sf-perl] Debugger goodness

Quinn Weaver qw at sf.pm.org
Wed Mar 1 21:38:29 PST 2006


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:56:00AM -0800, David Alban wrote:

> [Useful debugger tips]

>   export EDITOR=vim

Just to be pedantic, some BSD systems expect you to use VISUAL instead
of editor (and commands like 'crontab -e' don't honor EDITOR).
So you should always do something like this in your .bash_profile:

export EDITOR=whatever
export VISUAL=$EDITOR

Silly, huh?

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