Re: External editor with parameters not working?

["Mike Smithson" <mdooligan gmail com>]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:14:38 -0800, Stevko <stevko stevko info> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I tried the following thing:
> 1) export EDITOR="emacs -nw"
> 2) mc
> 3) (with internal editor disabled) go to some file and press F4
>
> This opens emacs with the file, however it does not open it in
> terminal (which should be done with -nw switch) but in new window in
> X. (as if it somehow ignored -nw). If I run the following in shell:
>
> $EDITOR file
>
> it opens file as expected. Why does mc not do that?
>
> I tried setting EDITOR to "vim -R" and again when run from mc, it does
> not honor -R switch.
>
> I have version 4.8.12 (which comes from Fedora 21 package).
>
> Stevko
>
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Hello Stevko.

I recall being confounded by this very thing.

In my mc/ini file ($HOME/.config/mc/ini)
I have this:

[External editor or viewer parameters]
vi=%filename +%lineno
vim=%filename +%lineno
ed=+%lineno %filename
/bin/mo=%filename +%lineno
mo=+%lineno %filename
less=%filename +%lineno
joe=%filename +%lineno
more=%filename +%lineno

You can add the command line options here.
It seems mc doesn't *really* call $EDITOR.


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