On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 8:35 AM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Zdenek Dohnal <zdoh...@redhat.com> said: > > I'm not sure if which other applications use the default editor, I know > > only git from those. So let's say I will talk about the editor which > > git-commit spawns during committing a change. > > There are a variety of CLI tools that use $EDITOR (do any still use > $VISUAL? I still set that out of habit), and usually default to /bin/vi > in the absence of a setting. On one desktop system, I see about 20 > packages that appear like they might be referencing $EDITOR (just > grepping in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin). > > I've been using vi/vim for almost 30 years, and have set $EDITOR and > $VISUAL for the whole time. I honestly didn't realize $EDITOR wasn't > being defaulted to /bin/vi, and we just have programs with their own > arbitrary default. So I'm definitely +1 to explicitly setting it. > > I would go with /etc/profile.d snippets, because that's the most obvious > and historical place (for Red Hat-derived systems at least). > Alternately, the default PAM config loads pam_env, which will look in > /etc/security/pam_env.conf, /etc/environment, and ~/.pam_environment by > default. There's possibly other things that could be moved here; if > this isn't a good use for it, I don't know what is (why are we loading > pam_env if we aren't going to use it?). >
Actually, if we turn on PAM's support for split distro/admin configuration, we *could* ship this as a pam.d snippet in /usr and allow the admin to override it in /etc if they wish. This might work better than profile.d snippets too, since it'd be one file for all the shells, rather than a bunch of files for every shell. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
