[Gambas-user] EDITOR environment variable

[jose.rodriguez at cenpalab.cu]

On 2022-10-28 09:28, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> Le 28/10/2022 à 15:21, gian via User a écrit :
>> Il 28/10/22 04:03, T Lee Davidson ha scritto:
>>> On 10/27/22 18:15, gian via User wrote:
>>>> However, I found out that a user of Mint 20.01 and Gambas 3.17.3, 
>>>> who did not set the environment variable and did not install any of 
>>>> the required editors, never got the warning and Gambas works fine.
>>> 
>>> Same here with v3.17.3 on openSUSE Leap 15.3, and also with $EDITOR 
>>> not set. (Version control seems to work just fine.)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Lee,
>> 
>> I noticed that it happens only if you compile, if you install from 
>> repository (in Ubuntu PPA) even if you don't have those text editors 
>> or environment variable installed nothing is asked.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Gianluigi
>> 
> 
> The $EDITOR environment variable is used only when the IDE run
> specific git / svn commands that requires it.
> 
> Maybe I should find a way to workaround this requirement...


IIRC from my VectorLinux days, we set $EDITOR by default (can't remember 
if system-wide or in /etc/skel) so I figured at least the most common 
distros did the same, but it turns out Mint does not (at least in 21.0). 
Mint does, however, use an "editor" symlink using the "alternatives" 
system, which I assume Ubuntu and maybe Debian also do.

joe1962 at mint-pc:~$ which editor
/usr/bin/editor
joe1962 at mint-pc:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug  9 11:26 /usr/bin/editor -> 
/etc/alternatives/editor
joe1962 at mint-pc:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug  9 11:26 /etc/alternatives/editor -> 
/bin/nano

Don't know if that helps any (if other distros do it or not), but there 
it is...

Regards,
Joe1962