Re: nano vs VI

[Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home@nifty.com>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:17:24AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2014-01-02, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> >> man select-editor
> > man select-editor
> > No manual entry for select-editor
> 
> I think you need to install 'sensible-utils', which provides
> 
> /usr/bin/sensible-browser
> /usr/bin/sensible-editor
> /usr/bin/sensible-pager
> 
> I guess it's the sensible thing to do (I haven't done it!)
> 
> Oops; he said 'select-editor'.  Mmm, maybe he meant what I 'read' 'cause I
> can't find select-editor anywhere.

I never heard about it :-) but I have it here.

$ select-editor

Select an editor.  To change later, run 'select-editor'.
  1. /bin/ed
  2. /usr/bin/emacs23
  3. /usr/bin/mcedit
  4. /usr/bin/vim.basic
  5. /usr/bin/vim.gtk
  6. /usr/bin/vim.nox
  7. /usr/bin/vim.tiny

Choose 1-7 []: 6
$ dpkg -S select-editor
sensible-utils: /usr/bin/select-editor
sensible-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/select-editor.1.gz

As I see its changelog, it is only in testing/sid:

sensible-utils (0.0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix bashism in select-editor
    Patch by Thorsten Glaser
    Closes: #711321

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:19:39 +1000

sensible-utils (0.0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Merge 0.0.7ubuntu1
    - add select-editor (Closes: #482774)
    - modify sensible-editor to pick the editor from select-editor
  * Removes reference to non-existent BROWSER documentation in environ(7)
    Patch by Matt Kraai
    Closes: #567250
  * Commented-out Vcs-* headers
    Closes: #661752
  * Standards Version is 3.9.4

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:27:15 +1000

Osamu