How do i suppress the editor in dpkg-source --commit calls?

Question

On Ubuntu precise

I am calling "dpkg -q --commit ./ patchsetname"

When I do this it decides to open an editor using the select editor binary.

I want to suppress that. Any thoughts?

I'd rather not have to interrupt the exec syscall with a shared library and filter for the editor query. There should be a cleaner way of doing this.

Answer 1

I just fixed this with the following:

EDITOR=/bin/true dpkg-source -q --commit . patchsetname

This will (obviously) use true instead of nano and at least on kubuntu this seems to work fine.