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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:23, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 14:29:07 +1000, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > I think from reading all this elvis should stay in the iso_root, jed
> > and slang can be removed from iso_root but still selectable as editor
> > from menu and installed automatically, and vim should be added as
> > editor to the menu and installed automatically, but aliased/changed to
> > elvis for usage within the installer.
> >
> > Does that sound like a good compromise ?
> >
> > And if jed is removed from iso_root, should it be aliased/changed to
> > nano or elvis ?
>
> Would it be possible for the editor selection thingy to set the EDITOR
> environment variable? Then you could just do "$EDITOR /path/to/file"
> when some file needs to be edited.

it does already, but if a user chooses jed or vim (which won't be in the 
iso_root) it will need to set it to something else or $EDITOR will fail
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