From 4f736602310b5906e8e9ed3f664fdda05827b342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Vogelgesang <matthias.vogelgesang@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:52:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Try $VISUAL and $EDITOR for config['editor']

On UNIX derivates they expand to the default or preferred editor and avoid
unnecessary first time edits of the config file.
---
 jrnl/install.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jrnl/install.py b/jrnl/install.py
index 03b3ede5..dcb83601 100644
--- a/jrnl/install.py
+++ b/jrnl/install.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ default_config = {
     'journals': {
         "default": os.path.expanduser("~/journal.txt")
     },
-    'editor': "",
+    'editor': os.getenv('VISUAL') or os.getenv('EDITOR') or "",
     'encrypt': False,
     'default_hour': 9,
     'default_minute': 0,