From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 22:43:55 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: unified EDITOR variable setup
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.134~28^2~3
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=416f5fc7a3e337080c60d7e042669feb4b04f96a;p=feisty_meow.git

unified EDITOR variable setup

also stopped trying to use bluefish for the editor.  yow.
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diff --git a/scripts/core/variables.sh b/scripts/core/variables.sh
index 3596c0c4..d8b44bc8 100644
--- a/scripts/core/variables.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/variables.sh
@@ -318,12 +318,10 @@ done
 # 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
@@ -337,12 +335,18 @@ fi
 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
 
 ##############
diff --git a/scripts/customize/fred/fred_variables.sh b/scripts/customize/fred/fred_variables.sh
index 36bee1e1..00f9637b 100644
--- a/scripts/customize/fred/fred_variables.sh
+++ b/scripts/customize/fred/fred_variables.sh
@@ -38,31 +38,9 @@ if [ -z "$USER_CUSTOMIZATIONS_LOADED" ]; then
   # set our browser for seti and others that use the variable.
 #  export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
 
-  # editor and other mixed settings...
-  export EDITOR="$(which gvim)"
-  if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
-    export EDITOR="$(which vim)"
-  else
-    # special case for gvim; tell it not to fork or we can't wait for it.
-    EDITOR+=" --nofork"
-  fi
-  if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
-    EDITOR="$(which vi)"
-  fi
-  if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
-    EDITOR="$(which emacs)"
-  fi
-  if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
-    echo "Cannot find a friendly editor."
-  fi
-  export VISUAL="$EDITOR"
-  # the editors for revision control must wait while document is edited,
-  # so gvim and others launched to x window are not appropriate.
-  export GIT_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
-  export SVN_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
-
-  # this hideous mess is necessitated by our not having found the source of the
-  # settings yet.  we override a few colors that look bad on a dark background.
+  # this hideous mess is necessitated by our not having found the source of
+  # the "ls" color settings yet.  we override a few colors that look bad on
+  # a dark background.
   export LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;37:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=41;33;01:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=00;31:*.tgz=00;35:*.rpm=00;33:*.deb=00;33:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;35:*.zoo=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;35:*.bz2=00;31:*.tb2=00;31:*.tz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.avi=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.aiff=00;32:*.au=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.ogg=00;32:*.voc=00;32:*.wav=00;32:'
 
   # options for the lame mp3 encoder.