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Re: Debian-Policy Manual



In article <[🔎] m0wdLLe-000AHbC@eos>,
	David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch> writes:

>>TOPIC 4: editor/pager policy
> What is the benefit of /usr/bin/sensible-{editor,pager}?
> Why don't we just default to EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi and PAGER=/usr/bin/more
> if both variables are unset? (auch, don't beat me)

That might enable us to get rid of /usr/bin/{editor,pager} though it's an
inferior solution to what we're doing at the moment. It won't enable us to
get rid of /usr/bin/sensible-{editor,pager} which are for progams that don't
understand EDITOR and PAGER.
.


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