From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:08:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: bash_profile: Find a useful editor automatically.
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bash_profile: Find a useful editor automatically.
---

97b82392cfd7d7b62069dec34756e5d079f78a2e
diff --git a/bash_profile b/bash_profile
index 64a85f1..50d5542 100644
--- a/bash_profile
+++ b/bash_profile
@@ -101,7 +101,16 @@ umask 002
 
 unset LANG
 
-export EDITOR="emacs -nw"; export VISUAL="$EDITOR"
+export EDITOR=ed
+for ed in "emacs21 -nw" "emacs -nw" vi pico nano ae; do
+  name=`echo $ed | sed 's/ .*$//'`
+  if type -t >/dev/null "$name"; then
+    EDITOR=$ed
+    break
+  fi
+done
+export VISUAL="$EDITOR"
+
 export TEXINPUTS=".:$HOME/lib/tex//:"
 
 __mdw_addto INFOPATH r $HOME/info /usr/info /usr/share/info /usr/local/info