Hello.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 7, 2007 3:56 PM, Stroller &lt;<a href="mailto:stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk">stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On 7 Dec 2007, at 13:29, Alexander Skwar wrote:<br>&gt; Emil Beinroth &lt;<a href="mailto:emilbeinroth@gmx.net">emilbeinroth@gmx.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt;&gt;<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">&gt;&gt; there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano
<br>&gt;&gt; as the<br>&gt;&gt; default choice.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; How does it do that? How do I make it select something else?<br><br></div>I think you simply emerge vi (or vim or emacs or joe or whatever) and<br>then portage will no longer try to emerge nano (or any other editor).
</blockquote><div>&nbsp;</div></div>Yes, I know. That&#39;s one way. But why am I able to &quot;preselect&quot;<br>the virtual/mta by editing the virtuals file and why can&#39;t this same<br>thing be done for virtual/editor? Basically, I&#39;d like to *preselect*
<br>what should be taken as a virtual.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Alexander