Glen Lee Edwards <Glen_at_fcwm.org> writes:
> I use the following perl script, which reads from a directory and creates fvw
> m
> buttons for each file name:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
...
> The "$EDITOR" variable is a system variable defined in ~/.bash_profile that I
> 'd
> like to be able to change on the fly so I can from an xterm define which text
> editor is used to edit the files in the respective directory. Currently the
> only way I've been able to accomplish this is to quit the fvwm2 session and
> redefine $EDITOR from console. Is there a way I can do this while still in t
> he
> fvwm2 session? Doing a restart would be acceptable, but it would be nice to
> be
> able to just type in an xterm "$ "EDITOR=emacs" and have the change recognize
> d
> by fvwm.
Start the FvwmCommand server.
Do:
FvwmCommand "setenv EDITOR emacs"
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Received on Fri Dec 14 2001 - 10:36:04 GMT