Re: default editor

2003-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:39:58PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction > > >> between them has long been lost. >

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:41:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these > > days... when was the last time you actually used a line editor > > interactively? > > It's been a couple years,

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these > days... when was the last time you actually used a line editor > interactively? It's been a couple years, but I've been known to use it to fix a broken system... 8^) -- Alan Shut

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Wardle
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:20:39 +0100 "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, but mutt (normally) obeys VISUAL if present - it's only the > >Debian package which seems not to. > Maybe you think this because the debian package is a 1.5 sn

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Wardle
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:20:39 +0100 "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Yes, but mutt (normally) obeys VISUAL if present - it's only the > >Debian package which seems not to. > Maybe you think this because the debian package is a 1.5

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Will Yardley
Alan Shutko wrote: > 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 : "/u

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Craig Dickson
Alan Shutko wrote: > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 >

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 19, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [FYI: since somebody asked about it, bidirectional gating will be enabled for all linux.debian.* newsgroups hopefully before the end of the month, as soon as I can change what is needed in the software. News->mail gating for linux.debian.user will

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Alan Shutko
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"); >Visua

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Will Yardley
[ Bcc to md at linux.it; package maintainer see http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg03514.html] In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Yardley) writes: >> Shouldn't VISUAL (if present) override /usr/bin/editor as the >> default full-screen editor?

Re: gmane.org (was Re: default editor)

2003-03-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:04:25 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:15:28 -0800, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [ Tried to post to linux.debian.user, but apparently this doesn't work >> at the moment, unfortunately. ] > > Try the public access ne

gmane.org (was Re: default editor)

2003-03-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:15:28 -0800, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Tried to post to linux.debian.user, but apparently this doesn't work > at the moment, unfortunately. ] Try the public access newsserver gmane.org. For more information see the web page of the same name. The group corre

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Yardley) writes: > Shouldn't VISUAL (if present) override /usr/bin/editor as the > default full-screen editor? Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction between them has long been lost. Set them both and it'll work almost everywhere. -- Alan Sh

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:15:28PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > [ Tried to post to linux.debian.user, but apparently this doesn't work > at the moment, unfortunately. ] linux.debian.user (and for that matter, any of the other newsgroups this mailing l

Re: Default editor at install

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:59:39AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > It's been a while since I've last installed Debian from scratch. Is ViM > the default vi clone installed? I thought it was another clone. Anyone > know? Nope, nvi is, because it is bug-for-bug compatible with VI. Also, I believe tha