Bug 167911

Summary:	$EDITOR should be set
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Need Real Name <lsof>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	4	CC:	notting
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Description Need Real Name 2005-09-09 14:23:35 UTC

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Description of problem:
Users of Fedora miss out on one of bash's biggest time savers because $EDITOR is not set.

Say you're constructing a long command:

$ for i in *.c; do something $i; somethingelse $i; mv $i /path/to/somewhere^X^E
(Ctrl-X, Ctrl-E)

the shortcut to open your default editor will fail because EDITOR is not set.

I don't have emacs installed. It would be nice if vi loaded.

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-09 19:19:38 UTC

Hm, I'm not sure defaulting $EDITOR is really best. Perhaps bash should fall
back to _PATH_VI (from paths.h) if emacs isn't found.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2005-09-14 09:54:34 UTC

set -o vi
Then press 'v'

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2005-09-14 10:57:03 UTC

I don't want to change my line editing interface, I'm happy with the default -
but I do want to be able to use ^X^E without it falling over because it can't
use emacs.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2005-09-14 11:20:14 UTC

So you want to use emacs keybindings for command line editing, but vi
keybindings for editing the command line.  I suspect you are in the minority.

Please take this up with the bash maintainer if you'd like it changed.

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2005-09-14 11:57:21 UTC

Yes, why not? vi is the standard default editor, and bash - complete with emacs
keybindings - is the standard default shell.

I don't think the request is so strange.