On 2016-12-07 12:20, René J.V. Bertin wrote: >> What does that achieve that setting $EDITOR doesn't? > > For one thing it would also provide a convenient way to use a simple, > lightweight editor when you want or have to avoid the usual editor > for a few quick changes. The standard vi fallback also has certain > power-user features that aren't always available in otherwise more > convenient GUI editors. Evidently you can do `env EDITOR=foo port > edit bar` or `vi `port file bar`` but 1) `port -f edit bar` is much > quicker to type and 2) you have to remember the priorities among the > 3 supported env. variables.
This is really not a problem of port(1). As said before, configure MP_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR according to your environment. If you need to override the environment, port(1) already supports the parameter 'port edit --editor ...' for that. You can already shorten that to 'port ed --e ...'. If you still need something shorter, think about a shell function or alias. Rainer
