TOR environment variable

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1

My profile sets the TOR variable to $(whence vi). What is TOR used for?

I appreciate any help I can get.

2

I've never heard of the TOR variable and I'm not sure what it's getting set to...

What's the exact line in your profile? TOR=$(whence vi) ?
What shell / OS do you use? Is that line part of a bigger script?

3

It is set along with other line-editor related commands. We are using ksh on Solaris. Here's a snippet from the .profile, below. I'm wondering now if it's a fragment left over from when someone edited the letters EDI out of EDITOR, since it's not included in the export command that follows.

# Set up Prompt and things

stty erase ^H
set -o vi

SysName=$(hostname);
export SysName

PS1="$(print '${SysName}:/${PWD#/} [ ! ] ')"

TOR=$(whence vi)
FCEDIT=$(whence vi)
VISUAL=$(whence vi)
EDITOR=$(whence vi)

export PS1 EDITOR FCEDIT VISUAL

4

I'd say that's an excellent guess ... you could always comment that line out and see if anything breaks before you delete it, but I'd guess you're right.