On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:32:02PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 05:00, Colin Watson wrote: > > If the editor is actually part of the other program, such as editing a > > text area in a web form directly in Mozilla, then I'd be willing to make > > an exception, but not otherwise. > > Again, I think one should think for this purpose of an integrated > environment mainly all as one program. And especially with component > embedding (which will become much more prevalent over time), the > distinction becomes quite blurred. > > > "Use integrated environment's editor" > > should be an option defaulting to off: note that newbies will not have > > $EDITOR set at all so this won't affect them, and many other people may > > choose to set $EDITOR in a context that doesn't apply to their whole X > > session so that programs launched from a window manager menu don't see > > it. This is fine. > > Yes, what we are discussing will not affect newbies. But I imagine a > lot of experienced users have EDITOR and especially PAGER set > consistently, and this will affect them.
Not really because we are only talking about the Debian default. All GNOME programs I have seen have a way to change the default locally, so this does not lock the user. I have no problem if GNOME allows to change the editor launched by all GNOME softwares in one click, just that it default to sensible-editor. The purpose of the default is not to be the best choice for a particular user, because each users have different preferences, but to be usable by everybody. That imply not to present them each time with a different editor. What you are looking for is a tool that propose users with different configuration choices and do all the quirks neccessary. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
