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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
From: |
Steffen Nurpmeso |
Subject: |
Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:43:37 +0100 |
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Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
|>> so a program like mail would offer two escapes (~e vs. ~v) to let
|>> yo invoke either.
|>
|> So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed
|> was 9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd
|> use EDITOR?
|
|No, AFAIK it was always the user's choice. mail(1) had the `~e' escape
|and then added a `~v' one, with VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables
|echoing the cpp(1) macro names of the default values. Kurt Shoens,
|address@hidden, is down as the author in
|BSD-1-253-gc145e9e0ab5 of
|https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.
BSD Mail had both of ~v and ~e from the very start. I know of no
known released file which acted otherwise.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, (continued)
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Jon Fairbairn, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???,
Steffen Nurpmeso <=
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Vixie, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Bakul Shah, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/21
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/21
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/21
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/21
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/22
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/20