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Debian and derivative distros include a program named
sensible-editor
that is similar in spirit toEditor.get_editor()
, except it also allows the user to make an interactive choice when the relevant envvars are unset:$VISUAL
or$EDITOR
if they are defined~/.selected_editor
is run. If this file does not exist and input is a tty, the user is shown a list of installed text editors and asked to choose one. The choice is saved in~/.selected_editor
, and then the given program is run.~/.selected_editor
no longer exists,sensible-editor
falls back tonano
, thennano-tiny
, thenvi
.This patch adds
sensible-editor
to the list of editors considered byEditor.get_editor()
so that determining an editor to use on Debian systems works similarly to other programs on Debian.