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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Based nano user

From my .zshrc (typing this on mobile so cope if it's wrong)

case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    export EDITOR=nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    export EDITOR=ee
  ;;
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I guess shell languages can't do this:

export EDITOR=case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    ee
  ;;
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That would be too smart. Smells like kotlin's when

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Put backticks around the entire case statement, and you can.