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From: david rayner <david@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:58:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07075c9b-1d3e-e06c-c839-df64c73def01@rayninfo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3QWnkj0t_jubWcywHOmQ-fvNxAAH3HZ2uyWd6y7NQD_g@mail.gmail.com>


On 30/08/2022 20:38, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:39 AM zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I am using a shell (/bin/sh) script which stubbornly calls the terminal
>> version of gvim instead of the desired GUI version (gtk).
>>
>> I suspect the script doesn't know there is a GUI but what decides that?
> How is it being called? Some programs use the $VISUAL or $EDITOR
> environment variables to decide which editor to open.
>
PEBCAK: embarrassing mistake!

Of course I'd set EDITOR=/bin/gvim but in .zshrc

but the sh script obviously wasn't using .zshrc


echo 'Red Face'

zzapper



  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-30 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-30 13:19 zzapper
2022-08-30 19:37 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-08-30 19:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-08-30 20:58   ` david rayner [this message]
2022-08-30 21:37     ` Felipe Contreras

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