On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 17:46:15 (-0400), Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> >>Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon
> >>update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is set to NOT use
> >>mcedit, its internal editor
> >What does "echo $EDITOR" say in your shell?
>
> tony@deathstar:~/.config/mc$ echo $EDITOR
>
> tony@deathstar:~/.config/mc$
>
>
> Apparently nothing, but when I do update-alternatives to set it, It
> shows that vim.tiny is currently the chosen default (visudo uses it)
> How do I set $EDITOR if not with update-alternatives?
> >
> >The update-alternatives setting is only used when EDITOR is not set.
Perhaps you have
include/editor
Open=%var{EDITOR:nano} %f
in your mc.ext file (whichever one it's reading).
Thus I have:
# Override the built-in editor which I never use
include/editor
Open=%var{EDITOR:less} %f
Cheers,
David.
