FEATURE REQ: Add BZREDITOR

[Robey Pointer]

On 17 Sep 2005, at 5:34, Harald Meland wrote:

> [Jari Aalto]
>
>
>> Harald Meland <harald.meland at usit.uio.no> writes:
>>
>> | [Jari Aalto]
>> |
>> | > I'd like to use quick editor for changes, so another variable  
>> than my
>> | > default $EDITOR (which I prefer longer texts). Please check
>> | > environment variable
>> | >
>> | >         $BZREDITOR
>> | >
>> | > If the it is not defined, revert to $EDITOR
>> |
>> | I can see the need for using a separate editor for bzr, but  
>> don't see
>> | how it's necessary having two separate mechanisms (both
>> | .bzr.conf/editor and $BZREDITOR) for configuring this.
>>
>> See my previous posts, the issues are much simpler to copy with
>> environment variable that writing, updating, synchronizing additional
>> files.
>>
>
> I have seen your previous posts.
>
> I just don't understand why you're so averse to moving the
> shell-script logic you apparently envision for setting BZREDITOR from
> a shell-generic initialization file to a bzr-specific script.
>
> Neither the answer you gave above nor anything I've read in your other
> posts have managed to give me an understanding of why you insist on
> having bzr itself respect yet another environment variable.

I don't have an opinion either way here, but this seems like an awful  
lot of bickering for something pretty dumb/simple.

Google says that all the other systems have this: CVSEDITOR,  
P4EDITOR, SVN_EDITOR.  So it doesn't seem particularly controversial.

robey