Ralph Corderoy wrote:
why would our build or install dependency list include any editor?
Fedora's is changing from an install dependency on /usr/bin/vi to a
Suggests one. I haven't checked what the other distributions do. AIUI
the idea is a user won't see
$ comp
unable to exec vi: No such file or directory
whatnow: problems with edit--draft left in /home/ralph/mail/draft
$
i have not run comp without first setting VISUAL for at least two
decades, but when i used to do this, it would print a message like "type
your message below, and then hit control-D" and then read from standard
input. when did that change to requiring an external editor? perhaps
that's where it all went wrong.
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