[PATCH] Re: FEATURE REQ: Add BZREDITOR

[Jari Aalto]

Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> writes:

| 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 "$@"

These are all possibilities, but much more inconvenient that setting a
simple variable BZREDITOR that solves it all. I think it is more clean
and easy to manage from shell startup files.

Jari