Tutorial details | |
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Difficulty | Easy (rss) |
Root privileges | No |
Requirements | vi/vim |
Time | N/A |
$ export EDITOR=vim
OR
$ echo 'export EDITOR=vim' >> ~/.bash_profile
export EDITOR=vim
Feel free to replace vim with emacs, joe or any other editor of your choice. Open a text file using more or less pager, type:
$ less myfile.txt
OR
$ more ~/some.conf
To edit a file, hit v key from keyboard. This will start up an editor at current line and file.
Further readings:
- man page less and more
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when you use less for more to view at that time you want edit first press ‘v’ then ‘i’
Great tip thank you. I heard about this on the Lottalinuxlinks podcast.
Hullo, just love your writing :) Sorry if this is a stupid comment, I didn’t find a “like” button :(
I use TextWrangler which comes with the ‘edit’ command line tool. I have always detested vim and preferred nano’s simplicity. I just tried this hint with nano and then with the TW edit command and both worked great. This is a simple, yet very helpful hint.
Thanks!
Thanks!!
i was looking for the EDITOR env-var tip!
Useful, thanks,
— Philippe