On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:23:44PM -0500, David Steele wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Steele <ste...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> Are people using /usr/bin/todo in script or Makefile ? > >> Are they likely to still work with the alternatives ? > >> > > > > I'd say no. It is an interactive end-user command. > > > > This gives flexibility in what they are interacting with. > > > > This is no more of a stretch than "vi" implementing "editor".
Note that even in this case there is a minimal common interface required so that programms can call '/usr/bin/editor file' to let the user edit 'file'. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
