Do not put more than one command in the temporary file you are editing. Do not chain several commands together with semicolons.
For EDIT and other commands which invoke an editor (HEDIT, WEDIT, PEDIT), the default is to execute the editor vi. If you wish to change this, you can do so by setting the environment variable VISUAL to be the editor that you wish to use. For example, to use the emacs editor, execute the following statement BEFORE starting up VISTA (e.g., in your .cshrc file):
setenv VISUAL emacsIn many cases, you may have to provide the full path to an editor, for example:
setenv VISUAL /opt/local/bin/emacsin order to be able to execute it from within VISTA. It is always a good idea to verify the full path (using the Unix which command) before setting an environment variable.