You can specify any editor available on your computer system with the ING_EDIT option. This feature is valuable if you must edit frames and procedures called by your application and use a different editor. To use a text editor other than the default, you must redefine the ING_EDIT option before you start ABF.

Windows: For example, to define the text editor as "edit":

The default text editor is notepad unless your system administrator has set a different system-wide default when installing Ingres.

UNIX: For example, to define the text editor as "vi":

The default text editor is "ed," unless your system administrator has set a different system-wide default when installing Ingres.

VMS: Defining the logical ING_EDIT as "+EDT," "+LSE," or "+TPU" sets your default editor to the callable version of the editor that you select. Using the callable editor avoids creating a new subprocess to run the editor; therefore, the editor starts up more quickly.

The callable editor names do not take any qualifiers. Specify any non-default editor behavior in editor startup files.

For example, to use the Language Sensitive Editor in Fortran:

To use the callable version of the Language Sensitive Editor:

In the previous example, SYS$LOGIN:LSE_STARTUP.LSE includes the command "SET LANGUAGE FORTRAN."

The default text editor is "EDT."