On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 16:58 +0300, Jayson Willson wrote: > Hello. Could you please tell me, what is the difference between, for > example, /usr/bin/editor (which will be a symling to an editor chosen > with > update-alternatives --config editor) and /usr/bin/sensible-editor? > What > about pager and sensible-pager? I do not get the practical > difference. > Thank you. That's a good question! :) From simply skimming through the scripts, it seems to mostly be an easy way to set preferred applications through environment variables $PAGER, $EDITOR etc. I guess as a per-user setting instead of system-wide through alternatives? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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