changing editor in m-c

[Frank McCormick]

On 15/05/14 05:32 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:52:11PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>
>> I have tried suggestions from Googling including exporting EDITOR in
>> $HOME/bashrc...running select-editor ( doesn't appear to be on Fedora )and
>> creating a .select_editor text file in HOME. None have worked so
>> far.
>>
>> If I open a terminal first then m-c loads the proper editor...but if I
>> call m-c from a desktop file which loads a terminal, then loads m-c with the
>> -e option then vi is loaded.
>
> When you open a terminal and run mc yourself, bash is run in interactive
> mode.  Whereas using the desktop file is not.  Since you set the value
> of EDITOR in ~/.bashrc, only the interactive knows about it (see the
> "Invocation" section in man bash).  All environment variable related
> setup should go in ~/.bash_profile.  If you use multiple kinds of
> sh-like shells, it should be ~/.profile.  This way your whole session
> inherits the environment.
>
> Hope this helps,
>


    Putting it in ~/.profile (which didn't exist before) works.
Thanks for the help



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