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vigi98 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> MAYDAY !
>
> On thousands of web pages, I read that you have to type "define
> _editor=vi" under SQLPLUS to have a vi-like cmd line but it did never
> work for me.
>
> What am I doing wrong ? (I precise that I already tried with the full
> path of vi , ie "define _editor=/usr/bin/vi".
That is not supposed to give you "a vi-like cmd line". It sets the editor to be invoked when you type "ed [filename]". Does that part work? Do you have a /usr/bin/vi executable? Received on Tue Jan 24 2006 - 12:27:55 CST