On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:50:06PM -0400, Paul Timmins wrote: > export EDITOR="blah" > visudo If you're using a Bourne-type shell (such as bash), you can also do: EDITOR="blah" visudo This sets the environment variable for the command only, and does not affect subsequent commands. -- Chris Leyon cleyon@nji.com