Charles C. Fu wrote: >> sensible-editor actually defaults to $VISUAL, which is not >> mentioned in policy. Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes: > sensible-editor defaults to $VISUAL, then $EDITOR, then editor. > That's completly in line with the little history of editors someone > posted to this thread. Oh, absolutely--it's Debian policy which differs from common and historical practice, not sensible-editor. -ccwf