Bug 111263

Summary:	[request] Information on $EDITOR variable in section 3.10, "Text Editors"
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Victor Engmark <victor.engmark>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Victor Engmark 2007-04-05 10:40:03 UTC

It would be useful to describe how $EDITOR is used by prominent software,
and how to set it, in the "Text Editors" section.

This section could refer to section 3.9, "Shells", which could use a
different variable as an example.

Comment 1 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2008-12-23 00:15:31 UTC

trhodes     2008-12-23 00:15:20 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics chapter.sgml 
  Log:
  Add a note about setting the default EDITOR and refer to the shells
  section.
  
  PR:     111263
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.156     +6 -0      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
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Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2008-12-23 00:15:52 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

A mention has been made about setting the EDITOR environment 
variable, thanks.

Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2008-12-23 00:15:52 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me.