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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:

if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]

if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR [OPTIONS]

source the contents of file ~/.selected_editor and, if SELECTED_EDITOR environment variable exists execute SELECTED_EDITOR [OPTIONS]

run editor [OPTIONS] command

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)