consensus on VISUAL? (was Re: Weekly policy summary)
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week.
> Please let me know if you think any proposals have a consensus.
I think this one does:
> Add VISUAL when checking for user's editor (#41121)
> * Old.
> * Proposed by Steve Greenland; seconded by David Frey, Julian Gilbey
> and Chris Waters.
> * Programs should check VISUAL before EDITOR when trying to figure
> out what editor to use. sensible-editor already does this.
Note that the summary here misrepresents the proposal. The proposal
is to ALLOW, not REQUIRE, checking $VISUAL.
IOW s/should check/may check/
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