SENSIBLE-EDITOR
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 14 Nov 2010
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NAME
sensible-editor, sensible-pager, sensible-browser - sensible editing, paging, and web browsing
SYNOPSIS
sensible-editor [OPTIONS...]
sensible-pager [OPTIONS...]
sensible-browser url
DESCRIPTION
sensible-editor,
sensible-pager and
sensible-browser
make sensible decisions on which editor, pager, and web browser to call,
respectively. Programs in Debian can use these scripts
as their default editor, pager, or web browser or emulate their behavior.
SEE ALSO
Documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL and PAGER variables in
environ(7)
and
select-editor(1)
for changing a user's default editor
STANDARD
Documentation of behavior of sensible-utils under a debian system is available under
section 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might need to install debian-policy)