On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francis Moreau wrote: >> hmm why not fixing the command instead ? > > It's not broken.
Well, if you consider the man page correct, the command is, isn't it ? >> VISUAL can be used to visualize a file, so can be set to 'less' for >> example. It shouldn't be used if you wand to edit. > > That isn't the case. In fact, it's exactly the opposite. > > The historic use of VISUAL was for the user to set it to his preferred > `visual' (screen-oriented) editor (note the similarity to `vi') while > leaving EDITOR set to, most often, `ed'. It can be set to `less', but > I'm not sure why you'd want to. > > These days there's no practical difference between the two. > > You might see what `man environ' on your system says. A random Ubuntu > system I have access to reflects the usage as I've described it. > Indeed thanks for the clarificaiton. >> I think what is described in the man is fine. And I wanted to >> customize FCEDIT to launch emacs in sh-mode, something I can't do with >> current command setting. > > I'll consider it as an enhancement request for a future version. You Thanks > can, of course, set `VISUAL' to a command that starts emacs in the > desired mode. VISUAL is used by so many others programs where emacs in sh-mode by default is not the right thing to do. I think I won't use VISUAL but start emacs in sh-mode if the file name argument matches "*bash-fc-*" pattern. It should be safe. Could you point out the source code where the command you showed is located ? thanks -- Francis
