On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:17:19 +1000, Nick Blievers said: > I dont disagree that a simple GUI editor should be the default.... but lets do it > the Unix way, and > have an EDITOR variable set. Else we end up with yet another way of setting the > default editor.
This loses big time for those people who have EDITOR set to something that will DTRT when invoked in any sort of vt-100 emulator (everything from a Linux console to a telnet/ssh to an xterm). "The Unix Way" has long assumed that using your shell's version of 'export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi' will do something reasonable. And in fact, that's quite sane until some application decides that $EDITOR is presumed to be smart enough to open an X window all by itself, without a 'FooTerm -e $EDITOR $*' wrapper to do the windowing stuff for it. Using $XEDITOR instead, to denote a GUI-aware editor, might be a good idea....
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