Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:48:17 +0100 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update editor choice Message-ID: <20151215224817.GB31657@becker.bs.l> In-Reply-To: <20151215204601.bd653269.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20151213182848.M69104@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <20151215124601.GA4020@becker.bs.l> <20151215204601.bd653269.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, On Tuesday, 15. Dec 2015, 20:46:01 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:46:01 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > On Sunday, 13. Dec 2015, 12:31:22 -0600, Gene wrote: > > The problem I fussed about many times and long times without > > any understanding up to this day is not how but _where_ to > > set the EDITOR environment variable. There is > > > > - /etc/login.conf > > This will set environment variables globally for all users > who login, not depending on the shell. > > Some programs change their behaviour in dependence of the > > EDITOR variable. For example if you log into a host with the > > command > > > > $ ssh otherhost -t tmux > > > > most of the above files are left unregarded and the TMux > > option 'status-keys' may be set to an undesired value. > > This depends on how login shells and interactive shells are > being configured and how they inherit environmental variables. I tested it yet another time. When I give this command: $ ssh otherhost -t tmux new-session irb and the variable EDITOR is not mentioned in "login.conf", it will be empty. Ruby's ENV[ "EDITOR"] will be nil and TMux's option "status-keys" will be "emacs". Setting "EDITOR=vi" in login.conf/default/setenv solves the problem. But nowhere else. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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