.\" -*- nroff -*- .TH SELECT-EDITOR 1 "21 May 2008" "Debian" .SH NAME select-editor \- select your default sensible-editor from all installed editors .SH SYNOPSIS .BR select-editor .br .SH DESCRIPTION .BR select-editor provides a coherent mechanism for selecting and storing a preferred sensible-editor on a per-user basis. It lists the available editors on a system and interactively prompts the user to select one. The results are stored as .B SELECTED_EDITOR variable in ~/.selected_editor, which is sourced and used by .B sensible-editor command. .B SELECTED_EDITOR variable is overridden by the .B VISUAL and .B EDITOR environment variables. .SH AUTHOR .BR select-editor was written by Dustin Kirkland . .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR sensible-editor (1)