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Sean Whitton writes:
> On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> not set, the commands "editor" and "pager" should be used,
>>> respectively. These commands can be invoked explicitly (e.g. as
>>> /usr/bin/editor), or through a $PATH search (e.g. as edit
Hello,
On Mon, Dec 25 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> not set, the commands "editor" and "pager" should be used,
>> respectively. These commands can be invoked explicitly (e.g. as
>> /usr/bin/editor), or through a $PATH search (e.g. as editor).
>
>> ?
>
> This wording seems fine to m
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Jonathan Nieder writes:
> If read strictly, this says that I must use "/usr/bin/editor" instead of
> invoking "editor" from the $PATH. (I'm not sure I agree with that
> interpretation, but it came up in https://bugs.debian.org/682347.)
> Running "editor" from the $PATH in
Hello Jonathan,
On Wed, Nov 08 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I understand and agree, but that doesn't mean that packages should
> invoke editor using an absolute path.
>
> Policy describes package behavior, not user behavior.
Right. In this case, though, it describes package behaviour meant to
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:31:09PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sean Whitton wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 06 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> >>Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use
> >>the EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor
> >>o
Hi,
Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use
>> the EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor
>> or pager the user wishes to use. If these variables are not set,
>> the
Hello Jonathan,
On Mon, Nov 06 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use
> the EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor
> or pager the user wishes to use. If these variables are not set,
> the programs
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.0.0
Policy 11.4 sayeth:
11.4. Editors and pagers
Some programs have the ability to launch an editor or pager
program to edit or display a text document. Since there are
lots of different editors and pagers available in the Debia
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