J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > One reason that I can think of is that with $EDITOR, a program can look at > what editor the user wants, and choose command line options on the basis of > that; that doesn't work with sensible-editor. Look at sensible-editor: #!/bin/bash shopt -s execfail exec ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-editor}} "$@" ... It first tries VISUAL and EDITOR. -- see shy jo