On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:41 PM Ian McInerney <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: >> >> ...snip... >> == Scope == >> * Proposal owners: >> ** Modify comps to include nano Fedora wide. >> ** Create a new subpackage of <code>nano</code>, called >> <code>nano-editor</code>. >> ** <code>nano-editor</code> to include >> <code>/usr/lib/environment.d/10-nano.conf</code>, which sets >> <code>$EDITOR</code> to <code>nano</code>. >> >> With this approach, if <code>nano</code> is uninstalled, the >> configuration will be removed with it. At the same time, installing >> nano on its own won't install the conf. >> > > Are you sure this will work? I just ran a test, and putting a new config file > inside /usr/lib/environment.d only works for Gnome, and doesn't work for > Mate, Cinnamon or SSH (tested by opening a terminal in the respective session > and examining the environment variables). From what I gather in [1], systemd > is not a standard way of interacting with the user's environment variables, > and only Gnome has decided to use it. So this method of implementing this > change seems to be making the default editor for Gnome be nano and not > changing the defaults for anyone else. >
We might want to do this as a profile.d snippet for all the major shells: bash/ksh, zsh, csh, and fish. That should work basically everywhere, afaik. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
