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Re: virtual package (x-)editor ?



On 29-Nov-01, 09:11 (CST), Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@spin.ch> wrote: 
> > you should call '$EDITOR -- $FILE', I'd say (or with the full path to
> > $FILE, in case the program doesn't understand -- for
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^             
> > end-of-switches-list).
> 
> Well, right now I'm using sensible-editor (as suggested by Steve
> Greenland, one of the debian policy guys) and I'm getting:
> 
> tpo@tpo2:tpo$ sensible-editor -- /tmp/kak
> Argument Error: unknown flag "-"
> Possible Starting Arguments for Pico editor:

That's because pico doesn't understand '--', which only provides
more evidence for my point that there's no standard interface for a
hypothetical 'editor' virtual package to provide.

> So much for "sensible-editors" ...

Well, you've defined EDITOR (or possibly VISUAL) as "pico". That's
hardly the 'sensible-editor' script's fault.

Steve



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