sensible-editor and stuff

Norbert Tretkowski tretkowski@inittab.de
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:21:04 +0100


reassign 280279 debianutils
reassign 285797 debianutils
reassign 289591 debianutils
thanks

* Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> Those 3 bugs: #280279, #285797 and #289591
> 
> I'm still investigating why sensible-editor is always spawning vi
> instead of nano which is the first choice in this sensible-editor.
> Well after some investigating i saw this in the manpage of bash:
> 
> In sensible-editor script you find the following construct:
> ${EDITOR:-editor} "$@"
> 
> When editor is not set the default editor will started and from the
> manpage of bash: "If EDITOR or FCEDIT is not set, vi will be used."
> 
> So i think this is nog our problem and should be reassigned to
> debianutils

Agreed and reassigned, thanks.

Norbert