From be94d560412611b59270c6832dea3ed16c034cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:55:48 +0000
Subject: bin/editor: revert to buggy version as requested by David Walser

http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2013-March/023248.html
---
 bin/editor | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/editor b/bin/editor
index 145fffb..2d64dea 100755
--- a/bin/editor
+++ b/bin/editor
@@ -1,24 +1,61 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# launch a text editor
+#---------------------------------------------------------------
+# Project         : Mageia
+# Module          : bin
+# File            : editor
+# Author          : David Walser
+# Created On      : Thu Apr 3 16:26:54 2012
+# Purpose         : launch a text editor
+#---------------------------------------------------------------
 
-exec_editor() {
-    if [ -n "$1" ] && [ $(basename "$1") != "editor" ] \
-        && which "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1
-    then
-        exec "$@"
+strip_texteditor_var() {
+    if [[ -n "$TEXTEDITOR" ]]; then
+	if [[ `basename "$TEXTEDITOR"` == "editor" ]]; then
+	    unset TEXTEDITOR
+	elif ! which $TEXTEDITOR > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+	    unset TEXTEDITOR
+	fi
     fi
 }
 
-exec_editor "$TEXTEDITOR" "$@"
-exec_editor "$VISUAL"     "$@"
-exec_editor "$EDITOR"     "$@"
-[ -n "$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" ] && exec_editor gedit "$@"
-[ -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" ] && exec_editor kwrite "$@"
-exec_editor kwrite "$@"
-exec_editor gedit  "$@"
-exec_editor emacs  "$@"
-exec_editor vim    "$@"
-exec_editor nano   "$@"
+strip_texteditor_var
+if [[ -z "$TEXTEDITOR" ]]; then
+ 
+    # using GNOME
+    if [[ -n "$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" ]]; then
+	TEXTEDITOR="gedit"
+    fi
+
+    #using KDE
+    if [[ -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" ]]; then
+	TEXTEDITOR="kwrite"
+    fi
+
+
+    strip_texteditor_var
+    
+    [[ -z "$TEXTEDITOR" ]] && TEXTEDITOR=`which kwrite 2> /dev/null` 
+    [[ -z "$TEXTEDITOR" ]] && TEXTEDITOR=`which gedit 2> /dev/null` 
+    
+    if [[ -z "$TEXTEDITOR" ]]; then
+	EMACS=`/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --list emacs`
+	if [[ -n "$EMACS" ]]; then
+	    if [[ `basename "$EMACS"` = "emacs-nox" ]]; then
+		TEXTEDITOR="xvt -e emacs"
+	    else
+		TEXTEDITOR="emacs"
+	    fi
+	fi
+    fi
+    
+    [[ -z "$TEXTEDITOR" ]] && which vim > /dev/null 2>&1 && TEXTEDITOR="xvt -e vim"
+    [[ -z "$TEXTEDITOR" ]] && which nano > /dev/null 2>&1 && TEXTEDITOR="xvt -e nano"
+fi
+
+if [[ -n "$TEXTEDITOR" ]]; then 
+    exec $TEXTEDITOR $@
+else
+    echo "no text editor detected"
+fi
 
-echo "no text editor detected" >&2
-exit 1
+# editor ends here
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