... it turns out the default editor back in the day (if you didn't
configure one with mhconfig) was "prompter", which would give you a
kind of very simple message input interface (but not exactly like you
describe).
prompter is what i was thinking of. repl and forw also used it. it was
great, because after i screwed something up and needed to get into an
editor, i could say ^D and something would ask "What now?" and i'd give
it some instruction that would _then_ start my visual editor of choice.
Yeah, I tried it quickly and it seems simple enough. And people who have
editor in their profile or use EDITOR/VISUAL won't notice a change.
That suggests to
me that maybe the default editor (in absence of any environment
variables) should be prompter, actually
i think it should still be prompter, so that we have no editor
assumption or dependency.
That sounds reasonable to me. Thoughts, objections? David, I saw
your reply and it sounds like you'd be okay with that, unless I
misunderstood you.
--Ken
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