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Re: "XDG, default apps, mess..."
I do like ranger, thanks @gemalya - I forgot about it... But LOL: I had to dig a bit to find that it uses the shell's $EDITOR variable!
Hell's bells!
Aug 29 · 3 months ago
XDG, default apps, mess... — I am having way too much trouble doing something very simple. I have two machines with XUbuntu but dwm'ed. I want to be able to look at files. I started with PCManFM (from inertia), and using xdg-mime configured text/plain to open vim.desktop (5Kb of yuck!). On one box it works, on the other it opens vim in a 80x24 space, after which status text gets printed at the bottom, arrows scroll past the editable 80x24 region, and the whole thing is a mess, although in a...