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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_editor, which is sourced and used by sensible-editor command. SELECTED_EDITOR variable is overridden by the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables.

AUTHOR

select-editor was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>.

SEE ALSO

sensible-editor(1)

21 May 2008 Debian