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

Grant Croker Grant.Croker at ingres.com
Mon Mar 12 05:47:05 CDT 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-ingres-bounces at kettleriverconsulting.com
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> bounces at kettleriverconsulting.com] On Behalf Of Gerhard Hofmann
> Sent: 12 March 2007 11:22
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> Subject: Re: [Info-Ingres] How can I force notepad.exe as external
editor
> forisql?
> 
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> 
> 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

IIRC on UNIX and Linux you need to include the full path. It has been a
long time since I have played around with these variables in a "real"
OS.

Glad it works

g




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