Um, what did get invoked? joe, jmacs, or something else?
Your alternatives are set for jmacs to start, and that's what should
have happened, unless you've futzed with sensible-editor or something.
Chris
On 6/2/05, Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 3.12
> Severity: normal
>
> I assume that when lacking both $EDITOR and $VISUAL, reportbug will
> use the system set /usr/bin/editor. However this setting is not
> respected. If I interpret the editor that reportbug launched
> correctly, it selected the highest priority editor.
>
> But this is wrong. The system wide setting that admin has set should
> be used.
>
> FURTHER INFORMATION
>
> $ echo ${EDITOR:-none} - ${VISUAL:-none}
> none - none
>
> $ update-alternatives --config editor
>
> Selection Alternative
> -----------------------------------------------
> 1 /usr/bin/nvi
> 2 /bin/nano
> + 3 /usr/bin/joe
> * 4 /usr/bin/jmacs
> 5 /usr/bin/jstar
> 6 /usr/bin/jpico
> 7 /usr/bin/rjoe
>
> $ update-alternatives --display editor
> editor - status is manual.
> link currently points to /usr/bin/jmacs
> /usr/bin/nvi - priority 19
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/nvi.1.gz
> /bin/nano - priority 40
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz
> /usr/bin/joe - priority 70
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/joe.1.gz
> /usr/bin/jmacs - priority 50
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/jmacs.1.gz
> /usr/bin/jstar - priority 50
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/jstar.1.gz
> /usr/bin/jpico - priority 50
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/jpico.1.gz
> /usr/bin/rjoe - priority 25
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/rjoe.1.gz
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/joe.
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> ** Environment settings:
> VISUAL="env TERM=vt100 emacs -q -nw -no-site-file "
> EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> DEBFULLNAME="Jari Aalto"
> NAME="Jari Aalto"
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
>
> Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
> ii python2.3 2.3.5-3 An interactive high-level
> object-o
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
--
Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
