When Chow Chi-Ming wrote, I replied: This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment variable setting, so why not? > > >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hamish> We should certainly not force a particular editor down > Hamish> anyone's throat, especially emacs :-) > > I think it is pretty safe to assume that many Linux people use BASH. > >From the bash manpage > > [...] > READLINE > This is the library that handles reading input when using > an interactive shell, unless the -nolineediting option is > given. By default, the line editing commands are similar > to those of emacs. A vi-style line editing interface is > also available. > [...] > > I don't remember seeing complains saying bash should certainly not > force emacs-bindings down someone's throat. > > IMHO, having some consistencies across applications that involve > editing is good. Having said that, are key bindings of an editor > appropriate for dselect is another question. > > regards, > > -- > Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Department of Systems Engineering > The Chinese University of Hong Kong > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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