Home / ubuntu / Questions / 428182
Accepted
Dave
Asked: 2014-03-02 17:28:32 +0800 CST

Changing editor in abcde

  • 772

I ran abcde, but wanted to edit the CD information. When I said yes, it gave me a menu of editors to choose from. I unintentionally selected nano as the editor. I canceled C-c'd the process. Now when I run abcde it automatically uses the nano editor, which is not what I want.

Where/how does abcde keep the editor choice selection?

Note: there is no ~/.abcde.conf in my home directory. The system wide /etc/abcde.conf does not include information on the editor choice. I can't figure out how the selection I made during one run is getting to my current attempts.

cd-ripping

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    acbde uses your default text editor by reading the shell variable $EDITOR.

    By default, the preferred text editor is nano on Ubuntu. If you want something else, you can set the variable to a text editor of your choice by appending a line such as

    export EDITOR=vim

    to the file ~/.bashrc. Replace vim with the editor of your choice, of course. Remember to re-source your .bashrc after you edited it by running . ~/.bashrc before you run abcde, or simply log out and back in.

    • 2

  2. If possible, abcde uses the wrapper /usr/bin/sensible-editor. To show the selection again, run select-editor or delete ~/.selected_editor.

    • 0