Bug#111885: tetex-bin: texconfig depends on vi
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:43:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > unfortunately this option is not displayed. Here's a patch:
> >
> > --- texconfig.orig Mon Sep 10 20:25:49 2001
> > +++ texconfig Mon Sep 10 20:27:30 2001
> > @@ -1773,6 +1773,7 @@
> > " 23 80 12 \
> > "EXIT" 'exit' \
> > "CONF" 'show configuration' \
> > + "PREF" 'select preferred editor and pager' \
> > "REHASH" 'rebuild ls-R database' \
> > "FORMATS" 'formats' \
> > "HYPHEN" 'hyphenation' \
>
>
> sensible-pager and sensible-editor are intended to tae care of the PAGER
> and EDITOR environment variables, so we should use them. The patch is
> simple:
Absolutely agreed; yours is the correct Debian-specific patch.
However, the patch above should also be applied and sent upstream;
it's clearly an oversight. (I can contact Thomas if necessary.)
> --- texconfig.old Mon Sep 10 22:36:12 2001
> +++ texconfig Mon Sep 10 22:38:17 2001
> @@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
> tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/texconf$$
> tmpmenu="$tmpdir"/menu.out
> tmpans="$tmpdir"/answer.out
> -std_pager=more
> +std_pager=sensible-pager
> xdvi_shrink_scale=75
> -std_editor=vi
> +std_editor=sensible-editor
Julian
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