Manual: select-editor
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(1) command. SELECTED_EDITOR variable is overridden by the VISUAL
and EDITOR environment variables.
AUTHOR
select-editor was written by Dustin Kirkland .
SEE ALSO
sensible-editor(1)
Debian 21 May 2008 SELECT-EDITOR(1)