Change mc (midnight commander) editor to mcedit /
How to make mcedit default editor for mc once again / Change Debian
Default editor the correct way
I'm considering to use
mc (midnight commander) to
review some dozens of source files in php/css and Java. However
currently on my Debian Lenny I have configured
vim to be the default editor in the
system. The way I've setupped my vim to be the default editor is
not really canonical, I mean I did it through $EDITOR variable in
my /root/.bashrc and my ~/.bashrc file. In other words I
have:
export VISUAL='vim'
export EDITOR='vim'
in my
.bashrc files.
Though the correct way to do that is actually either by:
hipo@noah:~# update-alternatives --config
editor
or through by linking /etc/alternatives/editor to your vim for
instance:
hipo@noah:~# rm -f /etc/alternatives/editor
hipo@noah:~# ln -sf /usr/bin/vim
/etc/alternatives/editor
As a result of my non-canonical ways to do things on the Debian as
whenever I tried opening files with midnight commander (mc), files
ended opening with vim.
I have to note that really sux a lot and therefore I hurried up to
change mc's behaviour back to normal.
Here is how:
While in mc press F9 and go to the
Options menu, then
navigate to
Configuration
Now tick on the text reading:
use internal edIt
afterwards it might be also a good idea to select
Save Setup
from the
Options in order to save changed settings for
future use.