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Re: Bug#6811: debmake 2.53 : /usr/bin/bug depends on joe



Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:

> On 24 Jan 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> 
> maor >Try the following in order:
> maor >VISUAL
> maor >EDITOR
> maor >vi
> maor >ae
> maor >Give up and ask the user to set VISUAL.
> 
> The current order is (as of 2.74):
> VISUAL
> EDITOR
> joe
> ae

Wasn't /bin/edit intend to provide this?

Currently it contains:
#!      /bin/sh
${EDITOR-ae} "$@"


So VISUAL should be added, and all programs needing an editor use
/bin/edit.


	SVen
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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