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Re: VI in SQLPLUS: still the same mess.

From: William Robertson <william.robertson_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: 24 Jan 2006 10:27:55 -0800
Message-ID: <1138127275.537066.119090@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>


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

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