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SELECT-EDITOR(1)                       General Commands Manual                      SELECT-EDITOR(1)



NAME
       select-editor - select your default sensible-editor from all installed editors

SYNOPSIS
       select-editor

DESCRIPTION
       select-editor  provides  a coherent mechanism for selecting and storing a preferred sensible-
       editor on a per-user basis.  It lists the available editors on  a  system  and  interactively
       prompts the user to select one.  The results are stored as SELECTED_EDITOR variable in ~/.se‐
       lected_editor, which is sourced and used by sensible-editor command.   SELECTED_EDITOR  vari‐
       able is overridden by the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables.

AUTHOR
       select-editor was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland AT canonical.com>.

SEE ALSO
       sensible-editor(1)



Debian                                       21 May 2008                            SELECT-EDITOR(1)