Permanently set the editor mode for Korn

[goldenradium2001]

I'm trying to permanently set the editor mode to vi for the korn shell. I placed the line

VISUAL=$(whence emacs)

in the .profile file. Didn't work until I sourced it.

Then I placed it in the local.profile file. Still didn't work when I logged in.

This is how I verify whether or not it has worked or not: I press the Esc key to go into command mode. If I get some weird character, then I know that the editor was not set.

What should I do?

Many thanks for any help.

 

[goldenradium2001]

Nevermind. My problem was that I was running a GUI. So the variable only could be used on the first instance of a shell (which would be where the GUI was running on). So, obviously, the second shell that I opened in the GUI did not use the variable because I did not export it.

I hope this helps someone.