Bug 18614 – setting EDITOR in /etc/profile

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-04-01 18:45:29 UTC]

It seems kinda silly to go through such acrobatics in /etc/profile to get
EDITOR.  In particular, I think it would be nice to avoid calling gawk for every
login shell!  Here's a much shorter method for doing the same thing...

# Extract the value of EDITOR
[ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR=`. /etc/rc.conf; echo $EDITOR` 2>/dev/null
[ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR=`. /etc/conf.d/basic; echo $EDITOR` 2>/dev/null
[ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR=/bin/nano
export EDITOR

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-06 11:40:04 UTC]

In CVS in a bit, thanks!