Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2013-01-14, at 1:42 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:

> i'm +- on that. vi is optional in posix, meaning some systems don't have
> to be able to install it, and it's optional in the field, meaning that
> some systems actually don't have it.

It's unlikely a system having nmh installed will not have vi there as well.  
And anyone using a system without vi will almost certainly have defined one of 
EDITOR and VISUAL in their environment.  And if not, they are obviously an 
ed(1) user :-)