• jayands@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The subtle difference is that your $SHELL is responsible for opening (and, iirc, parsing?) the file when you use \<, versus the $EDITOR being the responsible entity.

    • ulterno@programming.dev
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      20 hours ago

      Oh I get it now.
      Also, for some reason setting vi as $EDITOR, it is not able to load the contents of the file, unlike vim that does.