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Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?
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Ken Hornstein |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager? |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:49:24 -0500 |
>not all terminals were capable of doing the cursor addressing needed
>for any given screen-oriented editor. so the user was given the ability
>to configure two editors -- likely "ed" and "vi", though some folks may
>have used emacs or "se" :-). some programs had separate commands for
>invoking the two. (for instance, see ~e and ~v in the mailx man page.)
Ok, so I get in the mailx case there was ~e and ~v. But how did other
programs know when to use VISUAL and when to use EDITOR? I guess that's
the real confusing part to me; it was never clear to me how that decision
was made (all of the examples I ever found checked VISUAL then fell back
to EDITOR).
--Ken
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Paul Vixie, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Ralph Corderoy, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Alexander Zangerl, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, chad, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, heymanj, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?,
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, Paul Vixie, 2013/01/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Ditch autoconf selection of pager?, heymanj, 2013/01/14