Zsh misses EDITOR variable because /etc/zsh/zprofile have no code within to extract EDITOR from /etc/rc.conf like /etc/profile one: # Extract the value of EDITOR [ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR="`. /etc/rc.conf 2>/dev/null; echo $EDITOR`" [ -z "$EDITOR" ] && EDITOR="/bin/nano" export EDITOR I'm using (on x86 stable) zsh-4.2.5. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check you haven't set EDITOR manually or sources /etc/profile somewhere in zsh configuration files (Eight! zshenv,zprofile,zshrc,zlogin both global and local) 2. Fire up zsh 3. echo $EDITOR $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-suspend2-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-suspend2-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/var/tmp/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/tmp/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aac acpi alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dlloader dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtkhtml hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_ps2mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kernel_linux lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text libg++ linguas_it lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mono mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl php png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa vorbis wifi win32codecs xine xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thanks for the bug report. I copied the lines from /etc/profile to /etc/zprofile.
