Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:29:30 -0400 From: Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> Message-ID: <20180319192931.209f1d0...@pb-smtp1.pobox.com>
| So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the | distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. Paul's explanation seems right to me - commands like Mail had two "run an editor" commands, so the user could choose what kind of editor they wanted to run (and initially, so different users could pick the editing style of their choice). Once env vars existed, and could be put to use to allow the user to select which editor to run, I guess it just made sense to use a different one for each of the commands (editing styles) that existed. But, for me, this is guesswork, I was never part of any discussions (if there were any) on this. kre -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers