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Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?

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From: david rayner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:58:03 +0100
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On 30/08/2022 20:38, Felipe Contreras wrote:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:39 AM zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using a shell (/bin/sh) script which stubbornly calls the terminal
version of gvim instead of the desired GUI version (gtk).

I suspect the script doesn't know there is a GUI but what decides that?

How is it being called? Some programs use the $VISUAL or $EDITOR
environment variables to decide which editor to open.

PEBCAK: embarrassing mistake!

Of course I'd set EDITOR=/bin/gvim but in .zshrc

but the sh script obviously wasn't using .zshrc


echo 'Red Face'

zzapper

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