[PATCH] Re: FEATURE REQ: Add BZREDITOR

[Erik Bågfors]

2005/9/17, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>:
> Ivan Krstic <krstic at hcs.harvard.edu> writes:
> 
> | Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> |
> | > Perhaps I'm just being difficult...,
> |
> | I think you're being reasonable. $BZREDITOR seems like unnecessary bloat
> | to me.
> 
> For a user that does not need to differentiate the needs according to
> tasks, this may look like it, but I don't see the "bloat" referred to.
> 
> People that do not need BZREDITOR variable do not define it and get
> the value of EDITOR. Same in Python code: one simple test in
> environment. In both case that's hardly a bloat, but serving the needs
> of the end users.

I have to agree, I don't ever want to use another editor than vim so
for me it doesn't matter if it's only $EDITOR but I can understand the
usage. Other scm's does it this way.  darcs has $DARCS_EDITOR I
believe.

/Erik