Re: edit.m and EDITOR

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2012/4/10 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
> On Apr 10, 2012, at 4:26 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

>> The problem I'm trying to solve is that EDITOR and edit shouldn't be
>> storing separate variables for the EDITOR command. How do you
>> recommend to solve this instead?
>
>
> I'd forgotten about this conflict.
>
> Should we be using preferences instead ?
>
> i.e. addpref, ispref, setpref, getpref, rmpref

I don't see how those solve this problem... we already have a way to
set the preference, the EDITOR function-variable does this. The
problem is that I don't know how to fix the two copies of the EDITOR
variable in EDITOR and edit.m without breaking part of edit.m's
interface.

- Jordi G. H.