[1593] in athena10
Re: EDITOR and VISUAL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Fri Mar 13 01:41:52 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:40:53 -0400
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:58:10PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> It is my impression that the appropriate thing to do here is to just
> set EDITOR to emacs and leave the default VISUAL unset, because the
> standard application behavior is to either just try EDITOR or try
> VISUAL and fallback to EDITOR if EDITOR is unset.
I agree. The "setting EDITOR doesn't work" issue has bit me, too.
From zephyr:
debathena / VISUAL / broder 00:22 (Evan Broder)
Anyway, I'd definitely prefer setting just EDITOR
debathena / VISUAL / geofft 00:23 (Purely applicative languages
We could also make sensible-editor consider emacs more sensible than
nano, and set neither.
debathena / VISUAL / geofft 00:24 (If your computer speaks
This does leave EDITOR unset for things not Debian-patched to know
about sensible-editor, so probably not actually helpful. Never mind.
Greg
