Akira Kakuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hm, it's at least mentioned in texk/web2c/libs/texmfmp.c, but I can't >> find where it's set. Can anyone help me? > > Compile time default for TEXEDIT, MFEDIT, MPEDIT is the > variable EDITOR in texk/web2c/c-auto.h ( <--- c-auto.in).
Thank you. However, after some thinking I changed my opinion, and I don't think it makes much sense to change it there. Better include it in texmf.cnf, making it more visible. I suggest the following patch: @@ -484,7 +524,14 @@ % expecting DVI, and not "tex" because we want first line parsing. TEX = etex +% TEXEDIT: editor command, used when TeX presents an error in +% interactive mode, and the user presses `e' to start editing. +% +% The string %d is expanded to the line number of the error +% The string %s is expanded to the filename +TEXEDIT = vi +%d "%s" + % Part 3: Array and other sizes for TeX (and Metafont and MetaPost). % % If you want to change some of these sizes only for a certain TeX Regarding Debian, I don't think we can use "sensible-editor": It doesn't support the '+lineno' syntax. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)