Re: virtual package (x-)editor ?
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> > Not very practicable IMHO [1]. What is needed is to be able to have
> > something similar to "/usr/bin/sensible-editor but which is based on
> > alternatives/virtual-package.
>
> Ehrr, you didn't get my point. You complained that sensible-editor was
> invoking pico for no good reason (as you tried to suggest by showing
> that neither EDITOR nor VISUAL were set).
Not complaining. Just showing that sensible-editor did not call pico
because EDITOR or VISUAL were set.
> What you didn't show is your
> system default (update-alternatives --display editor) which is most
> likely set to pico.
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display editor
editor - status is auto.
link currently points to /usr/bin/pico
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