changing editor in m-c

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:26:12 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:

>    It used to work when the desktop file ran a script consisting of 
> (xterm -e mc) but stopped working when it ran xterm -e mc. Another
> user suggested exporting EDITOR in ~/.profile, which works. Of course 
> EDITOR is now exported in ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile. So
> I guess ~/.profile is the place it belongs in this case.

From man bash:

       When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter‐
       active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes  com‐
       mands  from  the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.  After reading
       that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
       in  that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that
       exists and is readable.  The --noprofile option may be  used  when  the
       shell is started to inhibit this behavior.