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:

       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 section 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)