J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > One reason that I can think of is that with $EDITOR, a program can look at > what editor the user wants, and choose command line options on the basis of > that; that doesn't work with sensible-editor.
Look at sensible-editor:
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s execfail
exec ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-editor}} "$@"
...
It first tries VISUAL and EDITOR.
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