[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#688252: $EDITOR + /usr/bin/editor default

[Paul Sladen]

Hello Ben,

I'm not the maintiner, but I saw a related question on 'ubuntu-users'
so I started hunting.  The related previous bugs on this topic are:

  1.
    * enable ENV_EDITOR
  Fixed in sudo (1.4.1-1) on 1996-03-05.

  2.
  "visudo does not default to vi"=20
  http://bugs.debian.org/388659
  Fixed in sudo (1.6.9p9-1) on 2007-12-03

  3.
  "sudo: ignores configured editor preferences"
  http://bugs.debian.org/474197
  Fixed in sudo (1.6.9p15-2), on 2008-04-16 with a revert + rationale:
  * revert the fix for 388659 such that visudo once again defaults to
    using /usr/bin/editor.  I was always ambivalent about this change,
    it has caused more confusion and frustration than it cured, …"

So my understanding is that since (April 2008) $EDITOR should be
respected, and the fall-back should be to /usr/bin/editor.

Could you clarify more precisely what you're seeing?

	-Paul