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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/rifle.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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diff --git a/doc/rifle.pod b/doc/rifle.pod index 7241f6b5..b4d76287 100644 --- a/doc/rifle.pod +++ b/doc/rifle.pod @@ -84,9 +84,15 @@ with ranger. To obtain it, you need to run: C<ranger --copy-config=rifle> =over 8 +=item VISUAL + +Determines which editor to use for editing files. + =item EDITOR -Determines which editor to use for editing files (in the default F<rifle.conf>). +Determines which editor to use for editing files if VISUAL is undefined or +empty (in the default F<rifle.conf>). If both are undefined or empty, "vim" is +used instead. =item PAGER |