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| author | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2015-11-21 15:05:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2015-12-06 17:23:25 +0100 |
| commit | cd08fe4259f72815a4b096b2a5ce325e9b445da4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d9fccc48beac3d6f65ecf32cfab131e5dfaa67a | |
| parent | b16dbd1311c9bd1346dcf0d490f25455e12b04cf (diff) | |
| download | guix-cd08fe4259f72815a4b096b2a5ce325e9b445da4.tar.gz | |
edit: Don't assume that an emacs daemon is running.
* guix/scripts/edit.scm (%editor): Use Emacs as a default value.
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/edit.scm | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/edit.scm b/guix/scripts/edit.scm index 660bd57985..ce3ac4146d 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/edit.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/edit.scm @@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ Start $VISUAL or $EDITOR to edit the definitions of PACKAGE...\n")) (show-bug-report-information)) (define %editor - (make-parameter (or (getenv "VISUAL") (getenv "EDITOR") - "emacsclient"))) + ;; XXX: It would be better to default to something more likely to be + ;; pre-installed on an average GNU system. Since Nano is not suited for + ;; editing Scheme, Emacs is used instead. + (make-parameter (or (getenv "VISUAL") (getenv "EDITOR") "emacs"))) (define (search-path* path file) "Like 'search-path' but exit if FILE is not found." |