[2013-02-04 17:09] Charlie Kester <corky1...@comcast.net>
> On 02/04/2013 13:09, markus schnalke wrote:
> >
> > On my system VISUAL is set to `vi', which is a common situation.
> > Your code assumes that VISUAL contains a graphical editor.
>
> I'm not sure, but I think the semantics when this variable
> first began to be used was to distinguish a full-screen editor
> like vi (or emacs) from a line editor like ed.
That's correct. The naming of the variables and editors is not
by accident:
VISUAL -- vi (which is short for `visual')
EDITOR -- ed (which is short for `editor')
;-)
meillo
