• namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Not necessarily! I always run ln -s '/usr/bin/$EDITOR' $(which $EDITOR) after a fresh install, so I have a valid executable on the path called $EDITOR.

    Of course, then I have to make sure to add export EDITOR=\$EDITOR to my .bashrc. (Obviously.)

    • sabin@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well,.that’s one way to solve the problem of not expanding your editor var correctly…