select-editor(1)

select-editor1

Select your default sensible-editor from all installed editors

Usage

select-editor

Overview

select-editor provides a coherent mechanism for selecting and storing a preferred sensible-editor on a per-user basis. It lists the available editors on a system and interactively prompts the user to select one. The results are stored as SELECTED_EDITOR variable in ~/.selected_editor, which is sourced and used by sensible-editor(1) command. SELECTED_EDITOR variable is overridden by the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 8–9
  2. 10–11
  3. 12
  4. 13

Author

select-editor was written by Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]>.

From sensible-utils 0.0.25 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.