Comment 4 for bug 601452

DigitalLogic wrote:
> Looking at the conkeror documentation here:
> http://conkeror.org/UserVariables
>
> editor_shell_command
> "Shell command used to invoke an external editor. Default is the value of the environment variable EDITOR. "
>
> Explains why it works when run from a shell as I have the EDITOR env
> variable set in my .bashrc.
>
> However, it also says:
> Default is getenv("VISUAL") || getenv("EDITOR") || "emacs"

This isn't true for the Debian package since Debian (and probably
Ubuntu, too) has its own default editor "sensible-editor" for
determining the right editor. Conkeror in Debian and Ubuntu is patched
to facilitate this feature.

Not sure if there's any local documentation in the package about this,
but if so, it's probably not patched.

  Regards, Axel
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