I3-SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)

✨ i3-sensible-editor 💅

ok so this is i3-sensible-editor(1), straight out of the i3 Manual bestie, and it's basically the friend who always knows a guy. 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

i3-sensible-editor — launches $EDITOR with fallbacks

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

i3-sensible-editor [arguments]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So i3-sensible-editor is the little helper that i3-nagbar(1) calls when you click that edit button. You know the one. 👑

What it does is try to start one of these, and it goes down the list in exactly this order, no skipping, no take-backs:

• $VISUAL
• $EDITOR
• nano
• nvim
• vim
• vi
• emacs
• pico
• qe
• mg
• jed
• gedit
• mcedit
• gvim

please please PLEASE don't come for the order okay 😭 if the user has literally any preference at all, they'll have $VISUAL or $EDITOR set. the list is a safety net, not a personality test.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• i3(1)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Michael Stapelberg and contributors — legends, fr fr 🫶

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ok that's the whole vibe, no cap. this was i3 4.25.1, dated 01/01/1980, and yeah the date is giving time traveler but that's just how the manual page came, bestie. go set your $EDITOR and slay. 💅✨🎀