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## 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@canonical.com>>.

## SEE ALSO
       [**sensible-editor**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/sensible-editor/1/markdown)



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