SELECT-EDITOR(1) General Commands Manual SELECT-EDITOR(1)
NAME
select-editor - select your default sensible-editor from all installed
editors
SYNOPSIS
select-editor
DESCRIPTION
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 SELECTED_EDITOR variable in ~/.selected_edi-
tor, which is sourced and used by sensible-editor command. SE-
LECTED_EDITOR variable is overridden by the VISUAL and EDITOR environ-
ment variables.
AUTHOR
select-editor was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>.
SEE ALSO
sensible-editor(1)
Debian 21 May 2008 SELECT-EDITOR(1)
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