Re: EDITOR selection based on gui

[Bennett Todd]

2000-07-17-09:26:17 Mostly Harmless:
> Is there an easy way to specify my editor as gvim if I'm in x, and vim
> if I'm connected from a remote machine via ssh?

Ayup. Use a wrapper script. Set the EDITOR environment variable, or
mutt's editor config variable, to the name of a wrapper script, and
let logic in that wrapper script decide. E.g.

        #!/bin/sh
        test -n "SSH_TTY"  && exec  vim ${1+"$@"}
        test -n "$DISPLAY" && exec gvim ${1+"$@"}
        exec vim ${1+"$@"}

-Bennett

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