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change default Gnome editor

Asked by Timmie

Hello,
please help me on this:

How do I change my default texteditor from Gedit to Scite in Gnome?

In my console I get the following:
echo $EDITOR
/usr/bin/nano

Scite is much faster and versatile.

Thanks in advance,
Timmie

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Leandro Gómez (leogg) said : 		#1

Hello Tim,

You have to change your defaults.list file:

1. First of all, open ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
2. Search for this entry: [Default Applications]
3. Add or change
text/plain=gedit.desktop
to
text/plain=scite.desktop
4. In terminal; pkill nautilus

Ready to go!

Cheers,

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