Re: Default editor - how is it set?

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:21:49PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> For some reason my copy of tin has started selecting nano as my editor
> instead of vi.  I have never had either EDITOR or VISUAL set in my
> environment so I'm at a loss to understand why it has changed.
> 
> How does tin decide what editor to use?
> 
> The only thing I can think of that has changed recently which might
> affect this is that I have moved vi from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin.
> 
> Any suggestions welcome.
> 

(Hallelujah! I have been subscribed for 6 weeks or so and this is the first
list mail I have seen!)

I wonder if nano is in /usr/local/bin?

I would think but I don't know that tin looks at your environment first then
starts search your path. Maybe it searches /local/bin before /usr/bin. 

How about adding it to your .bashrc or whatever you use?

A line or two such as

  Editor=vim; export EDITOR

or 

  if [ x$DISPLAY != x ]; then
    EDITOR=gvim; export EDITOR
  else
    EDITOR=vim; export EDITOR
  fi

Any way. Thanks for the  post! :)


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Kind Regards,
Freeman