>> I like Kevin Brown's suggestion of writing out a temporary .txt file and >> 'executing' it. It will follow the principle of least suprise for Windows >> users. > > Note that the current default behavior (assuming you've not set EDITOR) > is "vi foo.txt" which is quite unlikely to be helpful to a Windows user.
works for me :-) but agreed not a good default. > I'm not sure we need to do the "execute a textfile" bit, but at the very I don't think that eighter. And also imho the obvious extension would be .sql, and that might not be registered, or already registered for another not really wanted sql tool. I think we need or own editor setting, the windows way would be a private registry setting, but using EDITOR is imho just as good. > least DEFAULT_EDITOR should probably be "notepad.exe" on Windows. Yes that would be a sane default on Windows. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])