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Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?

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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How does shell decide between gui vim & terminal vim?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:38:31 -0500
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/28015>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:39 AM zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am using a shell (/bin/sh) script which stubbornly calls the terminal
> version of gvim instead of the desired GUI version (gtk).
>
> I suspect the script doesn't know there is a GUI but what decides that?

How is it being called? Some programs use the $VISUAL or $EDITOR
environment variables to decide which editor to open.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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