exp-preferred-application is used in the preset configuration for keyboard shortcuts. This is useful. However, default visual-editor is not something that the exo-preferred-application can handle. It should be able to.

<Super>+e currently opens up Mousepad, (Xubuntu 13.10). This is not my desired editor. I'd much like it if exo-preferred-application was able to support editors, then I'd have my editor set to gvim.

On further note, it'd be great if exo-* defaulted to the Debian defaulted to /etc/alternatives/editor.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct  1 16:04 /usr/bin/editor -> /etc/alternatives/editor
ecarroll@x230:~/code$ ls -lah /etc/alternatives/editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct  1 20:50 /etc/alternatives/editor -> /usr/bin/vim.basic

On debian, /usr/bin/editor is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor which is what the distro's update-alternatives uses. This is set to /usr/bin/vim.basic.