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Re: sensible-editor - let the user decied



Edward Betts wrote:
> The solution to that battle is to ask the user.

No it's not. sensible-editor already uses $EDITOR if that is set. There's no
need to ask the user, they would indicate what editor they prefer in the
usual way.

> Debian has a lot of programs that do the same thing. These functions could be
> descriped with a functions tag, in the package file. For each package there
> could be more than one function. This tag would be slightly similar to the
> virtual packages idea, but more advanced.

This doesn't scale to a package with multiple binaries in it that perform
multiple functions.

-- 
see shy jo


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