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Bug 538556 - Gedit's embedded terminal should set $EDITOR to gedit
Gedit's embedded terminal should set $EDITOR to gedit
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gedit-plugins
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on: 112908
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-16 08:18 UTC by ORY Mate
Modified: 2019-03-23 20:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description ORY Mate 2008-06-16 08:18:36 UTC 
Some users like to use editors other than vi(m) on the terminal, and most of them doesn't fit to a 3-5 lines tall terminal. Gedit would be an obvious option.

But by default it opens a new tab and ends the process -- which is not good for version control clients. There should be a solution for this.

Other information:
Comment 1 Steve Frécinaux 2008-06-16 10:44:41 UTC 
This can't be done before bug 112908 is solved. The reason is that it would break all the applications that expect a blocking editor (like pretty much all the VCS out there)
Comment 2 Kevin Hagner 2016-11-26 16:13:33 UTC 
You can simply put "gedit -s" as your $EDITOR for having this behaviour with applications like version control clients.