On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:24:31AM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
> At 5:10 PM +0100 4/28/1999, Marco Lopez wrote:
> >I've checked the $editor variable, the environment and VI works fine
>
> mysql checks $EDITOR and $VISUAL, not $editor.
... and vi is 'vi', not 'VI'. Case is really important in Unix.
If you've checked all those things and it still doesn't work,
try setting your EDITOR variable to the full path to vi, like
this:
$ env EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
If that works, then maybe your PATH is munged somehow.
Tim