Re: Where is my editor?
Thomas Dupond via "Discussion of nmh development, and help for new users" <[email protected]>
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Le 2024-01-19 à 09:10, Robert Elz a écrit : > Date: 18 Jan 2024 23:20:11 -0700 > From: "Andy Bradford" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > | Ahh, I didn't read the fine print... you said "mh's default", but I > | misunderstood it for "nmh's default". > > Yes, I have had the "editor" line in my profile since MH days, (I > have been a user since almost forever) so what nmh did as default > I never knew, which is why I avoided saying that... > > I assume the change you indicated happened is to avoid building a > choice of default editors into nmh - prompter is part of the MH > world, so always exists, even though ex/vi is POSIX std, there > really is no guarantee it will exist on every system in the world > (even less for emacs/jove/nano/vim/...) and having "ed" as the default > would simply irritate people. Unfortunately, even ed is not on every system, eg. Debian by default has vi/ex but not ed. -- Thomas