[Info-Ingres] How can I force notepad.exe as external editor forisql?

Gerhard Hofmann gerhard.hofmann at planat.de
Mon Mar 12 05:22:24 CDT 2007


Grant Croker wrote:
> 
> Check to see you have not got ING_EDIT set in the environment/shell
> since this takes precedence over the symbol.tbl value from my (limited)
> testing. The variables that control the editor called by Ingres
> applications are as follows in decreasing order of precedence:
> 
> ING_EDIT (shell/enviromment)
> ING_EDIT (symbol.tbl)
> VISUAL (shell/enviromment)
> VISUAL (symbol.tbl)
> EDITOR (shell/enviromment)
> EDITOR (symbol.tbl)
> 

Hello Grant,

thanks, this was an excellent idea! On the shell level, I had EDITOR=vi, 
have change this to EDITOR=notepad and now isql's edit command will 
invoke notepad.exe.

Regards
Gerhard


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