Chris Waters wrote: > $PAGER is a different case. I might consider a proposal that $PAGER > should only be used for terminal apps. That's historically how it's > used for the most part, anyway. In fact, if we look around, I bet > we'll find that most X apps ignore $PAGER, whether they're part of an > "integrated environment" or not, and we should probably consider > modifying policy to reflect reality here. > > But touch my $EDITOR at your peril! One problem with EDITOR and PAGER is that an X app has no way of knowing if the program is an X app, or if it must be run in a terminal. BROWSER of course avoids this by using a list of programs. I suspect that very few X apps really use EDITOR or PAGER at all, because of this flaw in the spec. -- see shy jo
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