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. Pro-
grams 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 SE-
LECTED_EDITOR environment variable exists execute SELECTED_EDI-
TOR [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 EDI-
TOR=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)
Debian 14 Nov 2018 SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)
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