guix: edit: Make nano the default editor.

* guix/scripts/edit.scm: Make nano the default editor.

Nano is sensible default, as it is installed by base system.
For development, user can set custom value for $EDITOR.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Raghav Gururajan 2020-04-22 20:55:40 -04:00 committed by Ludovic Courtès
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@ -56,10 +56,9 @@ Start $VISUAL or $EDITOR to edit the definitions of PACKAGE...\n"))
(show-bug-report-information)) (show-bug-report-information))
(define %editor (define %editor
;; XXX: It would be better to default to something more likely to be ;; Nano is sensible default, as it is installed by base system.
;; pre-installed on an average GNU system. Since Nano is not suited for ;; For development, user can set custom value for $EDITOR.
;; editing Scheme, Emacs is used instead. (make-parameter (or (getenv "VISUAL") (getenv "EDITOR") "nano")))
(make-parameter (or (getenv "VISUAL") (getenv "EDITOR") "emacs")))
(define (search-path* path file) (define (search-path* path file)
"Like 'search-path' but exit if FILE is not found." "Like 'search-path' but exit if FILE is not found."