#2209 Issue closed: Selecting default editor in ReaR¶

Labels: enhancement, no-issue-activity

adatum opened issue at 2019-08-13 02:00:¶

By default in recovery mode, selecting a menu item that requires editing opens vi. Is it possible to set the default (possibly in local.conf) to something else, for example nano?

I know nano is available in the ReaR shell, but it would be nice to stay in the recovery workflow with the desired editor.

Or of course I could try learning vi..

jsmeix commented at 2019-08-13 13:16:¶

We had the same request in the past, see
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1298

For now using in user dialogs the generic choice

Use Relax-and-Recover shell and return back to here

is the only way to do whatever one wants.

I understand the request that in the ReaR recovery system things like

# export EDITOR="/bin/nano"

# rear recover

should make those user dialogs use $EDITOR instead of the
currently hardcoded 'vi'.

Currently - and for some more weeks - I am not in the office
so that I cannot do actual work on ReaR but as time permits
I will have another look if I could find a sufficiently simple and
fail safe working way how the user could specify his preferred
editor in the ReaR recovery system.

github-actions commented at 2020-06-27 01:33:¶

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