On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 21:48:19 -0600 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On November 6, 2013 12:07:07 AM Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:01:36 -0600 Steve M. Robbins wrote: [...] > > > No, it uses the setting of $EDITOR. > > > See http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual_50.html > > [...] > > The problem is: I don't have any value set for the EDITOR environment > > variable! > > OK, fair enough. Still: you have an easy workaround for this bug.
Yes, but I am not sure how the workaround should be set up. The EDITOR environment variable is supposed to be used by any interested program, isn't it? Hence, if I $ export EDITOR='vim' then graphical applications like Ipe won't automatically spawn a terminal emulator to run VIM within. I tried with Ipe and the result was funny: the XTerm I had used to start Ipe was reused to host VIM. This may work in some cases, but not if I start ipe in background $ ipe & and then go on using the terminal emulator for other tasks... The alternative may be to $ export EDITOR='uxterm -e vim' but this won't work when honored by textual applications outside X11 (for instance, if I am using a textual program from the console, without starting an X session). Maybe I should just set the variable on the fly when starting Ipe: $ EDITOR='uxterm -e vim' ipe but this is boring to type again and again... Of course I can define $ alias ipe="EDITOR='uxterm -e vim' ipe" but this does not seem to be too clean... :-( Any suggestions? Thanks a lot for your kind assistance! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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