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[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

export EDITOR=nano.

But (neo)vim is amazing so there is no need to do that.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I transfer all my files over to a Windows machine and edit them in Notepad

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Based nano user

From my .zshrc (typing this on mobile so cope if it's wrong)

case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    export EDITOR=nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    export EDITOR=ee
  ;;
[–] lil@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I guess shell languages can't do this:

export EDITOR=case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    ee
  ;;
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That would be too smart. Smells like kotlin's when

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Put backticks around the entire case statement, and you can.