Package: alternatives File: alternatives Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Tools invoke visual editor (e.g. `reportbug', `crontab -e' or bash `fc'), but no visual editor key bindings work (for example, `:q' does not quit). Instead, someone has to press some non-standard CTRL-X or whatever. This is caused by a wrong default `alternatives' setting of editor. Instead of visual editor (vi) some incompatible editor (`nano'?) is selected by default. Also I think the name is wrong (/usr/bin/editor instead of /usr/bin/vi). Using `export EDITOR=vi' or `sudo update-alternatives --config editor' work around the problem, but has to be done after each installation on each host. Then tools invoke a visual editor supporting well-known visual editor key bindings. Regards, Steffen Dettmer ps: I assume this is a duplicate because it is very easy to notice, but http://bugs-search.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi just reports "Internal Server Error", so I couldn't check. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
