sensible-editor

SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)          General Commands Manual         SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)

NAME
       sensible-editor - sensible editing

SYNOPSIS
       sensible-editor [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION
       sensible-editor makes sensible decisions on which editor to call.  Pro-
       grams in Debian can use this script as their default editor.  sensible-
       editor try to do in the following order:

       1      if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]

       2      if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR[OPTIONS]

       3      source  the  contents  of  file  ~/.selected_editor  and, if SE-
              LECTED_EDITOR environment variable exists execute  SELECTED_EDI-
              TOR[OPTIONS]

       4      run editor [OPTIONS] command

       5      finally run nano-tiny [OPTIONS] command

SEE ALSO
       environ(7) for documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL variables
       select-editor(1) for changing a user's default editor.
       editor(1) for default system wide editor.

BUGS
       This command is protected against trivial fork bomb, when user set EDI-
       TOR=sensible-editor wider loops are still possible.

STANDARD
       Documentation of behavior of sensible-utils under a  debian  system  is
       available  under  section 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under
       /usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might need to install debian-policy)

Debian                            14 Nov 2018               SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)