[PATCH] Re: FEATURE REQ: Add BZREDITOR

[Rob Browning]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> writes:

> But I do need Emacs power to edit my long and lengthy bug reports,
> that attach files and examine environment variables when I report
> Linux distribution bugs (that use EDITOR to write the bug report).

Do you alternate often enough from the same prompt that it wouldn't be
sufficient to just set EDITOR in a given terminal and not export it,
or perhaps just use

  $ EDITOR=foo command

whenever you want an editor that's not the default?

Another approach might be to create your own ~/bin/bzr with the
appropriate override:

  #!/bin/bash
  EDITOR=foo
  exec bzr "$@"

or

  #!/bin/bash
  EDITOR=${BZREDITOR:-emacs}
  exec bzr "$@"

or similar.

-- 
Rob Browning
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