majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.comexternal-linkmessage-square328fedilinkarrow-up1864arrow-down159
arrow-up1805arrow-down1external-linkHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.commajestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square328fedilink
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·8 months agoI think you mean “$EDITOR”. Gotta have that variable expansion.
minus-squarenamingthingsiseasy@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 months agoNot necessarily! I always run ln -s '/usr/bin/$EDITOR' $(which $EDITOR) after a fresh install, so I have a valid executable on the path called $EDITOR. Of course, then I have to make sure to add export EDITOR=\$EDITOR to my .bashrc. (Obviously.)
minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWell,.that’s one way to solve the problem of not expanding your editor var correctly…
The best text editor is ‘$EDITOR’.
I think you mean “$EDITOR”. Gotta have that variable expansion.
Not necessarily! I always run
ln -s '/usr/bin/$EDITOR' $(which $EDITOR)after a fresh install, so I have a valid executable on the path called$EDITOR.Of course, then I have to make sure to add
export EDITOR=\$EDITORto my.bashrc. (Obviously.)Well,.that’s one way to solve the problem of not expanding your editor var correctly…