Date:Sat, 18 Feb 2023 05:18:22 +0300
From:Valery Ushakov
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| I think no program should ever init editline to vi mode,
This is BSD, everything should default to vi mode!!!
If you want some perversion from elsewhere, you need
to ask ecplicitly (perhaps ev
> I had to use mail(1) recently (after ~30 years break :). To my
> surp^Wconfusion its editline inits itself to vi mode.
The real problem, here, is that line editing is being done in the wrong
place. It should be done in the kernel as far as ordinary applications
are concerned, though it really
I had to use mail(1) recently (after ~30 years break :). To my
surp^Wconfusion its editline inits itself to vi mode. I think no
program should ever init editline to vi mode, unless specifically
instructed too. :)
PS: I had EDITOR=emacsclient on that system. But even EDITOR=vi is
not an excuse t
