Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The patch (to init.c) seems to be:
>
> Tempdir = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("TMPDIR")) ? p : "/tmp");
> - Editor = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("EDITOR")) ? p : "vi");
> + Editor = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("EDITOR")) ? p : "/usr/bin/editor");
> Visual = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("VISUAL")) ? p : Editor);
Either I'm blind, or that should obey VISUAL if set, otherwise
EDITOR, otherwise /usr/bin/editor....
[installs mutt, tries
EDITOR="echo EDITOR" VISUAL="echo VISUAL" mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]
Hmm... the Debian unstable package seems to work as expected for me.
Sure you don't have something weird in your environment or something?
> Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction
>> between them has long been lost.
>
> Perhaps, but EDITOR is supposed to be your line editor, and VISUAL your
> full screen editor, or at least that's what I've always been told.
Sure. But that distinction hasn't really been meaningful for at
least a decade, and people writing programs these days don't
necessarily follow it.
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