#1147997 vidir: no longer honors EDITOR

Package:
moreutils
Source:
moreutils
Description:
additional Unix utilities
Submitter:
Oliver M. Schode
Date:
2026-09-15 21:37:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1147997#5
Date:
2026-09-15 21:33:56 UTC
From:
To:
Hi there.

I'm aware this reads like #894665 but as I understand that one was about
"recursive" assignments in EDITOR. Not sure if there was ever an attempt
to fix this which somehow didn't work, yet I just realized vidir stopped
bothering about EDITOR at all. Strangely though it still tracks VISUAL.
However, unsetting VISUAL and changing EDITOR at the same crashes right
away: "exited nonzero, aborting". That message is similar to one
mentioned in the other report, so maybe a related issue.

In any case, EDITOR no longer works, with the man page still claming it does,
this is a different problem now.

Regards,
Oliver