On Saturday 22 September 2007, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > Some time ago I asked [1] about calling default text editor from an > application (here for isomaster). I can't use editor assigned to > specified mime type, because any (text) file (even html) should be > opened in a text editor (not e.g. web browser). > > I wrote a small script for that purpose and before its upload I would > like to ask for comments. - emacs is missing from the list - Should take current desktop environment into account, eg. prefer kate over gedit if running KDE even if gedit is installed - Should provide a way for users to set their preferred editor and not do any detection, eg. in a sourced ~/.somefile - Should probably be quiet by default, output stuff to stdout only on request - Would be nice to have this kind of a tool in xdg-utils, eg. as "xdg-edit" or "xdg-open --edit". Ask xdg-utils upstream? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list