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| author | toonn <toonn@toonn.io> | 2018-01-23 17:27:48 +0100 |
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| committer | toonn <toonn@toonn.io> | 2018-01-23 23:08:20 +0100 |
| commit | f186e8877b360e0b523de75781c8f1d23301d350 (patch) | |
| tree | 0eebcba5a670847a374932b8dbf6be8bc4e9fff0 /doc/ranger.pod | |
| parent | 0a75fdb06980c72a2ed58f65495ab0f02fae2506 (diff) | |
| download | ranger-f186e8877b360e0b523de75781c8f1d23301d350.tar.gz | |
Prefer VISUAL to EDITOR
`VISUAL` is often misused to mean desktop GUI editor it's actual purpose was to distinguish editors like `vi` (which is short for visual) from editors like `ed` (which was probably short for editor), `EDITOR` is actually intended to point to one of the latter. Rifle still defaults to `vim` if both variables are undefined, even with an old `rifle.conf` after trying to fall back on `EDITOR`. For some better information on this see, https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/334022
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ranger.pod b/doc/ranger.pod index 43926f46..1260c8db 100644 --- a/doc/ranger.pod +++ b/doc/ranger.pod @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Inspect the current file in a bigger window. =item E -Edit the current file in $EDITOR ("nano" by default) +Edit the current file in $VISUAL otherwise $EDITOR otherwise "vim" =item S @@ -1566,9 +1566,15 @@ If this variable is set to FALSE, ranger will not load the default rc.conf. This can save time if you copied the whole rc.conf to ~/.config/ranger/ and don't need the default one at all. +=item VISUAL + +Defines the editor to be used for the "E" key. Falls back to EDITOR if +undefined or empty. + =item EDITOR -Defines the editor to be used for the "E" key. Defaults to "nano". +Defines the editor to be used for the "E" key if VISUAL is undefined or empty. +Defaults to "vim". =item SHELL |