Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:47:24 -0400
    From:        David Levine <address@hidden>
    Message-ID:  <address@hidden>


  | The precendence in order from high to low is:  1) editor
  | component, 2) VISUAL, 3) EDITOR.

Actually, just to be precise, before those comes the -editor
switch to the program (comp, repl, etc).

I too have had an "editor" component in $MH_PROFILE
for a very very long time now, and had no idea that the
default editor had been switched away from prompter
(and I am glad to hear it has been switched back) - but
I have continued to use prompter from time to time,
especially with "repl" via the -editor switch (-ed) when
the reply is going to be something very simple, like "OK"
It is much easier & quicker to drive than any real editor
for things like that.

I also suspect that many of you do not recall using MH
back when the only real alternative editors to prompter
were not vi or emacs (or semi-clones to one of those)
but ed or Rand's 'e' and a few others similar (em from
QMC for example) - I don't think ex is quite as old as
MH (and vi certainly is not, not even as an ex cmd.)

kre