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

NAME
       sensible-editor - sensible editing

SYNOPSIS
       sensible-editor [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION
       sensible-editor  makes sensible decisions on which editor to call.  Programs in Debian can
       use this script as their default editor.  sensible-editor try to do in the  following  or-
       der:

       1      if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]

       2      if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR[OPTIONS]

       3      source  the contents of file ~/.selected_editor and, if SELECTED_EDITOR environment
              variable exists execute SELECTED_EDITOR[OPTIONS]

       4      run editor [OPTIONS] command

       5      finally run nano-tiny [OPTIONS] command

SEE ALSO
       environ(7) for documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL variables
       select-editor(1) for changing a user's default editor.
       editor(1) for default system wide editor.

BUGS
       This command is protected against trivial fork bomb, when user set  EDITOR=sensible-editor
       wider loops are still possible.

STANDARD
       Documentation  of behavior of sensible-utils under a debian system is available under sec-
       tion 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under /usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might
       need to install debian-policy)

Debian                                     14 Nov 2018                         SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)

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