From 9c8d6b8ff823b89d7c7a8d652ead56de3d91c8c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:27:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] making bluefish as editor require X

---
 scripts/core/variables.sh | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/core/variables.sh b/scripts/core/variables.sh
index 0628a4f1..b64b1670 100644
--- a/scripts/core/variables.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/variables.sh
@@ -311,8 +311,11 @@ 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 "$EDITOR" ]; then
-  EDITOR="$(which bluefish)"
+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="$(which bluefish)"
+  fi
 fi
 if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
   EDITOR="$(which gvim)"
-- 
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