On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 13:22:16 +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Policy states that programms should use $EDITOR if set and else use editor > as the prefered editor, but why not just use sensible-editor?
One reason that I can think of is that with $EDITOR, a program can look at what editor the user wants, and choose command line options on the basis of that; that doesn't work with sensible-editor. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
