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Comment 4 for bug 490506

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote : Re: [Bug 490506] Re: Kubuntu Developers shouldnt be using nano

> Using vim to directly hand edit the changelog should be discouraged.
> Using dch would be better. Unfortunately, dch lacks color syntax
> highlighting in it's current state. :)
>
> Ha!
>

My bad, dch by default uses nano. Setting

SELECTED_EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"

in .selected_editor fixes that nicely, and dch then uses color highlights.

Whee!

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