Bug#728480: ipe: calls gedit (hard-coded choice of text editor?)

[Steve M. Robbins]

On November 6, 2013 12:07:07 AM Francesco Poli wrote:
> Control: reopen -1 =
> 
> On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:01:36 -0600 Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On November 1, 2013 06:41:21 PM Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > I wonder why ipe tries to start gedit: is it a hard-coded choice
> > > of text editor inside ipe?!?
> > 
> > No, it uses the setting of $EDITOR.
> > See http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual_50.html
> 
> Hello Steve,
> thanks for your kind reply.
> 
> The problem is: I don't have any value set for the EDITOR environment
> variable!

OK, fair enough.  Still: you have an easy workaround for this bug.

Thanks,
-Steve
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