ken wrote:
prompter is what i was thinking of. repl and forw also used it. it was
...
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.
...
i think it should still be prompter, so that we have no editor
assumption or dependency.
i'm good with prompter. i didn't know it existed, and wrote my own
script to do much the same thing a couple of years ago, for use on my
phone. bringing up vi on a phone's ssh connection is... sub-optimal.
i don't think any of us involved in the vi-as-default thread from a
few years back really considered that it might cause a package dependency.
paul
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