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AkBKukU

Reputation: 150

Linux Open default terminal text editor

How do you open a plain text file in the user's default text editor for terminal in a bash script? xdg-open will open the file in the default gui editor, is there an equivalent for terminal editors?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1284

Answers (1)

Aif
Aif

Reputation: 11220

If the system is properly configured, editor should do the job.

For instance, on my debian system, editor is configured to use nano.

$ update-alternatives --display editor
editor - auto mode
  link currently points to /bin/nano
/bin/nano - priority 40
  slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz
/usr/bin/emacs23 - priority 0
  slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.emacs23.1.gz
/usr/bin/vim.basic - priority 30
  slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.fr.1.gz: /usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.it.1.gz: /usr/share/man/it/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.pl.1.gz: /usr/share/man/pl/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.ru.1.gz: /usr/share/man/ru/man1/vim.1.gz
/usr/bin/vim.tiny - priority 10
  slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.fr.1.gz: /usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.it.1.gz: /usr/share/man/it/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.pl.1.gz: /usr/share/man/pl/man1/vim.1.gz
  slave editor.ru.1.gz: /usr/share/man/ru/man1/vim.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/bin/nano'.

I was expecting it to use the environnement variable EDITOR, but obviously it's not the case, at least on Debian.

Upvotes: 3

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