Re: Editor and sensible-editor
Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> writes:
> On 14-Jun-99, 02:06 (CDT), Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 at 12:22, Joseph Carter wrote about "Re: Editor and...":
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > shopt -s execfail
> > > exec ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-editor}} "$@"
> >
> > Yes, I saw this. But I didn't see, like the following two lines,
> > something that supported pico OUTSIDE of the VISUAL or EDITOR
> > environment variables.
> >
> > I would still like to see a "hard-coded" line for pico, like there is
> > for ae or vi. That's all I wanted.
>
> Why? Are we supposed to list every possible editor? If you want pico to
> be your default, set EDITOR or VISUAL. What's so hard about that? If
> you want pico to be the system wide default (god forbid), set EDITOR in
> /etc/profile and /etc/cshrc (or whatever it's called).
NOOOOO, hands of /etc/profile.
Make pico /etc/alternative/editor via the alternatives mechanisms and
be happy with it.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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