On Sat, 02 Mar 2013, David Walser wrote: > nicolas vigier wrote: > > Please push desktop-common-data. > > > > In this new version /usr/bin/editor has been changed to try to use > > $VISUAL and $EDITOR instead of only $TEXTEDITOR : > > http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/desktop-common-data/trunk/bin/editor?view=log > > This was a bad change. It was working fine :o( > > http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/desktop-common-data/trunk/bin/editor?r1=7450&r2=7451
It was not working. You can try with a script like this to check that it doesn't work : #!/bin/sh TEXTEDITOR="xvt -e vim" $TEXTEDITOR $@ It opens a new terminal with vim inside, but does not open the file. Also opening a new terminal when you are already in a terminal is not very nice.