tag 597789 + patch thanks On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:38:53AM +0200, Eckhart Wörner wrote: > osynctool --configure seems to have vi hardcoded. > > Section 11.4 of the Debian Policy Manual states that "every program > that launches an editor or pager must use the EDITOR or PAGER > environment variable to determine the editor or pager the user wishes > to use. If these variables are not set, the programs /usr/bin/editor > and /usr/bin/pager should be used, respectively."
The code actually does honor the EDITOR environment variable. If empty, it does indeed call vi unconditionally, though. Attached trivial patch should fix it. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <j...@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
--- osynctool-0.39.orig/tools/osynctool.c
+++ osynctool-0.39/tools/osynctool.c
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@
if (editor)
editcmd = g_strdup_printf("%s %s", editor, tmpfile);
else
- editcmd = g_strdup_printf("vi %s", tmpfile);
+ editcmd = g_strdup_printf("/usr/bin/editor %s", tmpfile);
#endif
if (system(editcmd)) {
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