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Re: Processed: Re: Bug#166918: quota: edquota not using default editor



reassign 166918 quota
thanks

Actually, no.  Read Policy:

12.4. Editors and pagers
------------------------

     Some programs have the ability to launch an editor or pager program to
     edit or display a text document.  Since there are lots of different
     editors and pagers available in the Debian distribution, the system
     administrator and each user should have the possibility to choose
     his/her preferred editor and pager.

     In addition, every program should choose a good default editor/pager
     if none is selected by the user or system administrator.

     Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use the
     EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor or pager
     the user wishes to use.  If these variables are not set, the programs
     `/usr/bin/editor' and `/usr/bin/pager' should be used, respectively.

     These two files are managed through the `dpkg' `alternatives'
     mechanism.  Thus every package providing an editor or pager must call
     the `update-alternatives' script to register these programs.


It's quota's responsibility to honor this.


On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:33:08AM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> 
> > reassign 166918 libc6-dev
> Bug#166918: quota: edquota not using default editor
> Bug reassigned from package `quota' to `libc6-dev'.
> 
> > end
> Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Stian Jordet wrote:
> Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 
> > > Shouldn't edquota use the default editor from /etc/alternatives/editor? I
> Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 
> > > can ofcourse use export EDITOR=3Demacs, but it would be nice if this was do=
> Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 
> > > ne
> Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.
> 
> Too many unknown commands, stopping here.
> 
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