Previously Yann Dirson wrote: > Hm, does anyone knows what is VISUAL exactly intendend for ? I'm > thinking of some setting like `EDITOR=ed' and `VISUAL=vi'. If it's > really what was meant for a use of VISUAL, I'd say it's not needed any > more ... It's for when you actually have a good terminal which can support visual editing. You should, historically, be able to used $EDITOR on a dumb terminal, which is not a requirement for $VISUAL. IIRC anyway :) Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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