i3-sensible-editor(1)

i3-sensible-editor1

Launches $editor with fallbacks

Usage

i3-sensible-editor [arguments]

Overview

i3-sensible-editor is used by i3-nagbar(1) when you click on the edit button.

It tries to start one of the following (in that order):

• $VISUAL

• $EDITOR

• nano

• nvim

• vim

• vi

• emacs

• pico

• qe

• mg

• jed

• gedit

• mcedit

• gvim

Please don’t complain about the order: If the user has any preference, they will have $VISUAL or $EDITOR set.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13
  8. Arch

Author

Michael Stapelberg and contributors

From i3-wm 4.25.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.