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authorTom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>2017-05-14 22:58:25 +1200
committerTom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>2017-05-14 22:58:36 +1200
commit57daf35a76506de41dfaf94af78376717943957b (patch)
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parentInclude all alpha chars in drakon(6df) toggle (diff)
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Move exm(1df) test into EDITOR selection
Merely checking for vim(1) is a poor test; we specifically need to know if the ex(1) implementation is Vim, so test it while making the EDITOR decision.
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sh/profile.d/editor.sh b/sh/profile.d/editor.sh
index 307879fe..debb93b6 100644
--- a/sh/profile.d/editor.sh
+++ b/sh/profile.d/editor.sh
@@ -3,12 +3,21 @@
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
+# Failing that, if the system's implementation of ex(1) looks like Vim and we
+# have exm(1df) in our $PATH, use the latter to work around Vim's ex mode
+# screen-clearing
+elif (
+ command -v ex >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
+ command -v exm >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
+ ver=$(ex --version 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR==1{print $1;exit}')
+ case $ver in
+ (VIM) exit 0 ;;
+ (*) exit 1 ;;
+ esac
+) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
EDITOR=exm
-# Otherwise, just call ex(1) directly
+# Otherwise, we can just call ex(1) directly
else
EDITOR=ex
fi