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| author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2017-03-24 14:02:59 +1300 |
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| committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2017-03-24 14:02:59 +1300 |
| commit | 2e28d5a885608fddd1e0b7464ba3c9582a9e8ca4 (patch) | |
| tree | f2ac4ae683f7dd4cfa416813bf93838df0de256d /sh/profile.d/editor.sh | |
| parent | Remove double-up colon check in path() (diff) | |
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Add exm(1df) to work around Vim's screen-clearing
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| -rw-r--r-- | sh/profile.d/editor.sh | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sh/profile.d/editor.sh b/sh/profile.d/editor.sh index 5d6b249e..307879fe 100644 --- a/sh/profile.d/editor.sh +++ b/sh/profile.d/editor.sh @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ -# Set command-line editor; ed if we've got it (!), but ex will do fine +# Ideally, we'd use plain old ed(1), but many Linux distributions don't install +# it by default if command -v ed >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then EDITOR=ed + +# Failing that, if we have both vim(1) and exm(1df) in our $PATH, use the +# latter to work around Vim's ex mode screen-clearing +elif { command -v vim && command -v exm ; } >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then + EDITOR=exm + +# Otherwise, just call ex(1) directly else EDITOR=ex fi + export EDITOR |