Re: policy on editor/pager support

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> And I'm asking why is the EDITOR variable "going away" any different than
> /usr/bin/editor "going away" as well.

IIRC the whole point of /usr/bin/editor was to answer the question:

  I'm packaging xyz, and it uses an editor to change it's config file.
  To what should I set the compile time default editor,
  for use when EDITOR is not defined ?

Cheers, Phil.



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