Package: reportbug
Version: 3.39-0.1
Severity: normal

The default editor for reportbug (vi? vim?) does not work properly
inside reportbug. When I attempt to edit the bugreport the vi(m) statusline
is repeated at the bottom and my keystrokes are shown. The bugreport itself
is not editable. It sounds a bit strange but the attached reportbug-screen.txt
should hopefully make it clearer. It shows the contents of my terminal after
I pressen a couple of cursor keys.

I have also attached my reportbug configurations, so you can see that I have not
changed the default editor.

The workaround is easy: I set a different editor (like nano) but reportbug
should work out-of-the-box of course :-)

Kind regards,

Sander Marechal

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/sander/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.31"
mode standard
ui text
email "s.marec...@jejik.com"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: s.marec...@jejik.com"
smtphost bugs.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.11     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.2-1    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.6.6      register and build utility for Pyt

reportbug recommends no packages.

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On 14-May-2008, Sander Marechal wrote:

There is no "default editor for reportbug" except Debian's default
editor, 'sensible-editor(1)'. This is used by 'reportbug' only if
there is no specific setting of the 'EDITOR' environment variable.

If you want to select a default editor for yourself, set your 'EDITOR'
environment variable, which will be obeyed by most programs (including
'reportbug') in preference to 'sensible-editor'.

Can you please try a few things, and see which ones cause the same
symptoms:

* echo $EDITOR

* echo $VISUAL

* run 'sensible-editor' explicitly, and try editing a few files. Check
  what editor is actually running when you do this.

* run your choice of editor (e.g. nano) explicitly.

* 'export EDITOR=nano' and then try running 'reportbug' again.

Places to look where your EDITOR environment variable has been set
include:

* /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile

* /etc/bash_profile, $HOME/.bash_profile

* /etc/bash.bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc

A better workaround is to set your EDITOR variable for all sessions
and programs.

True.

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Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>

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There's also 'update-alternatives --config editor'.  Matter of fact,
you should also send us the output of update-alternatives --display
editor, since I have a very nasty feeling that this alternative on
your system is borked (a fairly common problem with the editor
alternative - I just checked and mine was set to an editor I don't
even have installed on my system).

It sounds like your editor setting is hosed up somehow or you ended up
stuck in some very bad/ancient vi that doesn't even understand cursor
keys (do h/j/k/l work?).

Chris

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