+
+##############
+
+# a late breaking action is to set the editor, if we can.
+# we will fallback to whatever we can find on the host.
+export EDITOR
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ EDITOR="$(which bluefish)"
+fi
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ EDITOR="$(which gvim)"
+ if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ # if we found gvim, then add in the no forking flag.
+ EDITOR+=" --nofork"
+ fi
+fi
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ EDITOR="$(which vim)"
+fi
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ EDITOR="$(which vi)"
+fi
+##
+# out of ideas about editors at this point.
+##
+# set the VISUAL variable from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
+if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ VISUAL="$EDITOR"
+fi
+
+##############
+