Fiddle with the default editor

Start tracking .selected editor, make use of this in .profile.

Create the v-editor script, which calls either $VISUAL, $EDITOR,
or $SELECTED editor, depending.

Symlink `v-editor' to `editor', to overide /bin/editor, which might
be used by some stupid programs.

4 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/.profile b/.profile
index c9db459..8808917 100644
--- a/.profile
+++ b/.profile
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
 #umask 022
 
+# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
+if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ]; then
+    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
+fi
+
 # if running bash
 if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
     # include .bashrc if it exists
@@ -16,7 +21,10 @@ if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
-# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
-if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
-    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
+# set SELECTED_EDITOR, EDITOR, and VISUAL to set the text editor used
+if [ -f "$HOME/.selected_editor" ]; then
+    . "$HOME/.selected_editor"
+    export SELECTED_EDITOR
+    export EDITOR="${EDITOR:-$SELECTED_EDITOR}"
+    export VISUAL="${VISUAL:-$SELECTED_EDITOR}"
 fi
diff --git a/.selected_editor b/.selected_editor
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..095d9cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.selected_editor
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Generated by /usr/bin/select-editor
+SELECTED_EDITOR="emacsclient -a ''"
diff --git a/bin/editor b/bin/editor
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..8ca5677
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/editor
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+v-editor
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bin/v-editor b/bin/v-editor
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..dc141bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/v-editor
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
+	${VISUAL:-$SELECTED_EDITOR} $@
+else
+	${EDITOR:-$SELECTED_EDITOR} $@
+fi