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 order:

    if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]

    if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR [OPTIONS]

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

    run editor [OPTIONS] command

    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 section 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under /usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might need to install debian-policy)