SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1) | General Commands Manual | SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1) |
NAME¶
sensible-editor - sensible editing
SYNOPSIS¶
sensible-editor [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION¶
sensible-editor makes sensible decisions on which editor to call. Programs in Debian can use this script as their default editor. sensible-editor try to do in the following order:
- 1
- if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]
- 2
- if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR [OPTIONS]
- 3
- source the contents of file ~/.selected_editor and, if SELECTED_EDITOR environment variable exists execute SELECTED_EDITOR [OPTIONS]
- 4
- run editor [OPTIONS] command
- 5
- finally run nano-tiny [OPTIONS] command
SEE ALSO¶
environ(7) for documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL
variables
select-editor(1) for changing a user's default editor.
editor(1) for default system wide editor.
BUGS¶
This command is protected against trivial fork bomb, when user set EDITOR=sensible-editor wider loops are still possible.
STANDARD¶
Documentation of behavior of sensible-utils under a debian system is available under section 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under /usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might need to install debian-policy)
14 Nov 2018 | Debian |