Bug 575026

Summary:	dispatch-conf should print an error if EDITOR and VISUAL are not defined or empty
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	manday
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cedric Sodhi 2016-02-18 10:56:10 UTC

Pressing either "e" or "l" in dispatch conf does not have any effect. I haven't tried others because I did not want to mess up my config but I suspect the problem may be the same. "z" and "u" seem to work.

Comment 1 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2016-02-21 16:12:25 UTC

set an EDITOR in your sudoers.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-02-21 19:56:59 UTC

Currently, it just calls nano when EDITOR is unset:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/dispatch-conf?h=v2.2.27#n340

Comment 3 Cedric Sodhi 2016-02-22 08:12:09 UTC

My EDITOR variable is not set although I set "eselect editor" to a value (vi). Is that a bug or possibly my mistake?

FWIW, I had nano depclean'ed.