The classic way of selection an editor is to look at environment variables: EDITOR is used for a line oriented editor VISUAL is used for a visual editor
So, export VISUAL=emacs will select emacs as the visual editor. export EDITOR=nano etc. Ken Kenneth Lerman 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 11:40 AM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson > > <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > Emacs is a "heavyweight" editor. It pulls in so many > language support libraries that it takes a long time to > load. It used to take a whole minute on my CNC computer a > long time ago. That one was very short on memory, but was > good enough for the old EMC2. Much better now, but still a > few seconds delay to start. > > Doesn't appear on the LiveCD as far as I can see. vi is there... > > > > This isn't about editors. This is about changes we can make in the > > LinuxCNC sample configs _only_ to make the user experience a bit > > better. > > > > And clicking "Edit G-code" and having nothing happen is not good. > > > Hmm, maybe during install the script could look for what > editors are actually installed and select one of them to be > used by the Edit button. > > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
