Eselect not properly changing EDITOR variable

[StevenC21]

Hello all. So, as the title suggests, eselect is not properly setting the EDITOR variable. I have switched it from nano to vim with the eselect tool, and with I run eselect editor list, it says that vim is selected. In addition, /etc/env.d/99editor reads:

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EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"

So that isn't messed up. However, when I open up a new shell and run 'echo $EDITOR', it reads out /bin/nano... this applies to standard accounts, as it appears that the variable is not set for root, ever. When I run 'echo $EDITOR' as root, it prints out a blank line (so its not set).

[Hu]

/etc/env.d does not directly affect your shell environment. It affects the tool that writes the file that affects your environment. Did you run env-update, or arrange for it to be run on your behalf, so that the settings in /etc/env.d were copied to /etc/profile.env?

[StevenC21]

I did not know that you needed to run env-update. Thank you.