Bug 545188

Summary:	app-misc/mc not using external editor
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark I Manning IV <mark4th>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alex Alexander (RETIRED) <wired>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	desktop-misc, polynomial-c, slyfox
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark I Manning IV 2015-03-31 22:01:54 UTC

Configured mc to use an external editor, set the EDITOR environment variable, pressed F4 to edit a file and... was presented with the midnight commander internal editor.  

I verified that the new config changes had been saved by quitting out of mc and relaunching and looking at the config.  External editor is still selected but this setting is now ignored.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-04-01 06:28:52 UTC

You can get rid of mcedit by installing mc with the "edit" USE flag being disabled.
Would that be a feasible solution for you?

Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-04-01 07:37:41 UTC

(In reply to Mark I Manning IV from comment #0)
> Configured mc to use an external editor, set the EDITOR environment
> variable, pressed F4 to edit a file and... was presented with the midnight
> commander internal editor.  
> 
> I verified that the new config changes had been saved by quitting out of mc
> and relaunching and looking at the config.  External editor is still
> selected but this setting is now ignored.

I can't confirm the behaviour on my setup.

Please show your:
1. emerge --info app-misc/mc
2. echo $EDITOR
3. grep internal_edit ~/.config/mc/ini