# man > SELECT-EDITOR(1)

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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
       ~/.selected_editor, which is sourced and used by  **sensible-editor  **command.   SELECTED_EDITOR
       variable 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)

Debian                                       21 May 2008                            [_SELECT-EDITOR_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/SELECT-EDITOR/1/markdown)