On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:31:09PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >> Thus, every program that launches an editor or pager must use > >> the EDITOR or PAGER environment variable to determine the editor > >> or pager the user wishes to use. If these variables are not set, > >> the programs /usr/bin/editor and /usr/bin/pager should be used, > >> respectively. > >> > >> If read strictly, this says that I must use "/usr/bin/editor" instead > >> of invoking "editor" from the $PATH. (I'm not sure I agree with that > >> interpretation, but it came up in https://bugs.debian.org/682347.) > >> Running "editor" from the $PATH instead of using that full path should > >> be perfectly acceptable and IMHO is a better behavior, since it allows > >> the user to put a custom editor in /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin. > > > > ISTM that the intention is for the user to set EDITOR and PAGER to > > select an editor or pager, rather than putting things called 'editor' > > and 'pager' into PATH. > > I understand and agree, but that doesn't mean that packages should > invoke editor using an absolute path. > > Policy describes package behavior, not user behavior. > > Further, a sysadmin on a shared machine doesn't have a way to set > EDITOR for all users,
Why not ? PAM can do it, see /etc/environment? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
