On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 03:57:32PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > That's wrong. The correct thing to do is check for the environment > variables VISUAL and EDITOR, and then fall back on /usr/bin/editor (Not > /etc/alternatives/editor -- nothing is supposed to use that except the > update-alternatives stuff.) Or just call /usr/bin/sensible-editor, which > will do the checks for you. All this is in Debian Policy 12.4. In particular, > the last sentence of that section is This thread already came up within the past 3 months. How about you folks reread it before going nuts with unnecessary new infrastructure. There's no reason a user or local sysadmin can't point EDITOR to some wrapper that tests "$DISPLAY" and behaves accordingly. -- G. Branden Robinson | I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux | comitting hara-kiri over this, but branden@debian.org | I overslept this morning. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Toshio Yamaguchi
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