On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:06:30 +0700 Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:
Robert Elz writes:
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:47:24 -0400
From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Message-ID: <2558-1521395244.835589@BijR.XOxa.ckYx>
| The precendence in order from high to low is: 1) editor
| component, 2) VISUAL, 3) EDITOR.
Actually, just to be precise, before those comes the -editor
switch to the program (comp, repl, etc).
I too have had an "editor" component in $MH_PROFILE
for a very very long time now, and had no idea that the
default editor had been switched away from prompter
(and I am glad to hear it has been switched back) - but
I have continued to use prompter from time to time,
especially with "repl" via the -editor switch (-ed) when
the reply is going to be something very simple, like "OK"
It is much easier & quicker to drive than any real editor
for things like that.
I also suspect that many of you do not recall using MH
back when the only real alternative editors to prompter
were not vi or emacs (or semi-clones to one of those)
but ed or Rand's 'e' and a few others similar (em from
QMC for example) - I don't think ex is quite as old as
MH (and vi certainly is not, not even as an ex cmd.)
Bill Joy wrote vi in 1976 while at UCB. I believe MH came
later. Initially I used vi and Mail but later switched to e
and mh -- may be because @ Fortune we now had Dave Yost and
Rick Kiessig they'd both worked at Rand and on at least the
Rand Editor. From what I recollect, more people used Mail
than MH and I believe the $EDITOR/$VISUAL convention for
calling an editor was well established. But it is possible
MH picked this up much later.
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