Re: easy question..

I don't know what the 'default' editor is, but you can set it to be vi by setting this environment variable.

VISUAL=vi

or at least that's the way it works in solaris.

Glen A Stromquist wrote:

> What is the default editor in AIX when invoking "ed" from sqlplus? I am
> in a sqlplus session on an AIX system (something I don't normally do)
> and went to edit the statement I was working in, I got a message "wrote
> file afiedt.buf" and seem stuck there. I assumed it was vi but vi
> commands arent letting me out, and I seem to be stuck in this editing
> session.
>
> TIA

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Phillip