On 6 Apr 2017, at 23:10, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it works with MP_EDITOR, I just checked. You never showed the exact > command you are running; are you using sudo? That will strip all environment > variables that are not listed in env_keep. VISUAL and EDITOR are there in the > default sudoers, but MP_EDITOR is not.
I do not sudo and I did mention the commands a couple of days ago. In my bash startup file or in any shell export VISUAL=/opt/local/bin/vim works export MP_EDITOR=/opt/local/bin/vim doesn't work I could keep using VISUAL without knowing why MP_EDITOR doesn't work in my machines, but it puzzles me.
