[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#557126: mcedit should be default editor within mc

[Benny Baumann]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4
Severity: minor

When installing mc the internal editor mcedit should be made the default editor
within mcedit or at least an option to do so should be offered when installing.

Another option would be to split mc and mcedit into two separate packages while
offering the choice to change the default system editor while install.

Earlier version (basically in etch) made mcedit the default editor within mc
upon install of mc by default while leaving the EDITOR environment variable
untouched. Currently the mc package installs a tool which is better to be split
into its own package or to be used in the default configuration.

Regards,
BenBE.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.1.3-3    The S-Lang programming library - r

mc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                      <none>          (no description available)
ii  bzip2                    1.0.5-1         high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  dbview                   <none>          (no description available)
ii  file                     4.26-1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  lynx                     2.8.7dev9-2.1   Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
ii  mime-support             3.44-1          MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
pn  odt2txt                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                    5.52-12         De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m                      0.5.2-2+b1      WWW browsable pager with excellent
pn  xpdf                     <none>          (no description available)
pn  zip                      <none>          (no description available)

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