Re: replace mcedit with emacsclient without chaning $EDITOR

[Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 <brownh historicalmaterialism info>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:22:03AM +0300, Andrew Borodin wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:10:17 -0500 Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 wrote:
> > The way to do this typically seems to change the value of the variable 
> > $EDITOR, but I don't want to do that system-wide, but only for mc, so 
> > that F4 brings up emacsclient to edit files, and nano is the default 
> > editor system-wide.
> >
> > How would I manage to do that? Unable to find help.
>
> MC contains two wrappers for bash: /etc/bashrc.d/mc.sh and /usr/lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh.
> The same wrappers are exist for csh. But in your MC build that scripts
> can be located in different places. You can redefine the EDITOR variable
> in one of them.

Andrew,

Tbanks, but apparently I missed something. I have a 
/usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh. In it I append the line:

  EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacsclient

The mc editor, however, remains nano. The line is ignored.

Haines