bzr 0.0.9 & ~/.bzr.conf/editor

Jan Hudec bulb at ucw.cz
Sun Oct 2 22:23:34 BST 2005


On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:53:14 -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> >Well, at least if $EDITOR is defined, it should be used. It's kind of
> >standard. And packages may want to specify particular defaults, like
> >sensible-editor in Debian.
> 
> I completely agreed that $EDITOR should be used if it's defined. And it 
> also makes sense to use Notepad as a default on MS Windows. I was 
> referring to the case where there were no hints at all about what editor 
> should be used. In that case:
> 
> Best: Ask the user what editor to use
> Ok: Tell the user how to configure an editor, and exit
> Worst: Run vi (or emacs)

Yes. Though on some systems, there is always a hint.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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