Ralph Corderoy <ralph(_at_)inputplus(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
|>> so a program like mail would offer two escapes (~e vs. ~v) to let
|>> yo invoke either.
|>
|> So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed
|> was 9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd
|> use EDITOR?
|
|No, AFAIK it was always the user's choice. mail(1) had the `~e' escape
|and then added a `~v' one, with VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables
|echoing the cpp(1) macro names of the default values. Kurt Shoens,
|kurt(_at_)ucbvax(_dot_)Berkeley(_dot_)EDU, is down as the author in
|BSD-1-253-gc145e9e0ab5 of
|https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.
BSD Mail had both of ~v and ~e from the very start. I know of no
known released file which acted otherwise.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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