From: Johan De Meersman (vegivamptuxera.be)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2009 - 02:47:07 CST

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You need to set that in the script that starts your mysql daemon, probably
/etc/init.d/mysql or something similar.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Xristos Karvouneas
<kalamata12hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to be able to do that from the cnf file, as I want to have a
> different editor for MySQL commands than the one I use when writing shell
> scripts. When I put the following in the .my.cnf file,
> [shell]
> EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/pico
> export EDITOR
>
> I get no error messages when mysql starts up, but the value of the EDITOR
> variable does not change.
>
> Is there any way I can achieve that from the cnf file?
>
> Thanks,
> Xristos
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