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Re: bashbug chooses wrong $EDITOR executable
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bashbug chooses wrong $EDITOR executable |
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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:18:25 -0400 |
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Bob Proulx wrote:
> I respectfully disagree. Strongly! :-) PATH is a configuration of
> the caller's environment. It isn't a good idea to change it just to
> override the caller's desired environment.
Sorry. Virtually every reference on secure shell programming would
disagree with you.
Chet
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