NAME

       sensible-editor - sensible editing

SYNOPSIS

       sensible-editor [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

       sensible-editor  makes sensible decisions on which editor to call.  Programs in Debian can
       use this script as their default editor.  sensible-editor  try  to  do  in  the  following
       order:

       1      if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]

       2      if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR [OPTIONS]

       3      source  the contents of file ~/.selected_editor and, if SELECTED_EDITOR environment
              variable exists execute SELECTED_EDITOR [OPTIONS]

       4      run editor [OPTIONS] command

       5      finally run nano-tiny [OPTIONS] command

SEE ALSO

       environ(7) for documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL variables
       select-editor(1) for changing a user's default editor.
       editor(1) for default system wide editor.

BUGS

       This command is protected against trivial fork bomb, when user set  EDITOR=sensible-editor
       wider loops are still possible.

STANDARD

       Documentation  of  behavior  of  sensible-utils  under  a debian system is available under
       section 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed  under  /usr/share/doc/debian-policy  (you
       might need to install debian-policy)