# 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 "$DISPLAY" ]; then
- # only try to add bluefish, a gui editor, if there is an X display for it.
- if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
- EDITOR="$(which bluefish)"
- fi
-fi
+# note: the editors for revision control must wait while the document is
+# edited, so gvim and others that launch a separate x window are not
+# going to work well unless they can be prevented from forking the process
+# off.
if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
EDITOR="$(which gvim)"
if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
EDITOR="$(which vi)"
fi
-##
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ EDITOR="$(which emacs)"
+fi
+####
# out of ideas about editors at this point.
-##
-# set the VISUAL variable from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
+####
+# set the VISUAL and other variables from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
VISUAL="$EDITOR"
+
+ export GIT_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
+ export SVN_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
fi
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