gvim is required to edit timelog.txt

[Federico Ceratto]

As long as there is no specific need of gvim as an editor for timelog.txt, by default gtimelog should instead run the default editor.
It can be achieved by running sensible-editor on Debian and Ubuntu systems.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

What do you thing about using xdg-open instead? It runs gedit for me and should be distro-independent.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Committed a fix to use xdg-open by default.

Note: if you've used gtimelog before, you'll have to manually edit ~/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc and change

    editor = gvim
    spreadhsheet = oocalc %s

to

    editor = xdg-open
    spreadsheet = xdg-open %s

[Federico Ceratto (federico-ceratto)]

Plus, xgd-open is designed to be used only in desktop sessions, so most likely it will fire up graphical editors instead of text-mode ones. Good choice, thanks!