
On Apr 3, 2008, at 21:49 , gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 2008.04.03 19:09:42 -0400, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH"
scribbled 0.9K characters: Also, you haven't addressed the question of editors requiring terminal windows, if I read the patch right. At the price of spawning a useless terminal when an X11-aware editor is specified, you can prefix "xterm -e " to the selected editor (or, perhaps better, use the existing terminal
On Apr 3, 2008, at 18:57 , Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: preference).
No, it doesn't. I thought about it and:
#You could penalize every user like myself using a sensible editor which can handle the CLI *and* X (shocking) with a bogus terminal, which is silly
Or you could just change what $VISUAL means on the grounds that *your* definition is the only correct one and the standard one therefore is wrong. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH