lynx-dev '$EDITOR'

[pg]

Hello, Lyncei,

I have long had my editor defined as:

    $EDITOR

This was nice; it tracks whatever editor is my whim at the
moment.  In fact, I have a .profile that sets EDITOR to
"dtpad" if I'm on an X11 workstation; else to "vi".  This
worked at least through 2.8.1dev.21.  Now, it's failing with:

    HTParse: result:/home/pg/public_html/STK.links/bookmarks.html
    PARAM-ADD:'$EDITOR'
    PARAM-ADD:'$EDITOR' /home/pg/public_html/STK.links/bookmarks.html
    PARAM-END:'$EDITOR' /home/pg/public_html/STK.links/bookmarks.html
    LYEdit: '$EDITOR' /home/pg/public_html/STK.links/bookmarks.html
    ^MHTuncache.. freeing document for 
'file://localhost/home/pg/public_html/STK.links/bookmarks.html'
    getfile: getting 
file://localhost/home/pg/public_html/STK.links/bookmarks.html

$EDITOR is being quoted rather than evaluated, most likely because of:

    1998-12-26 (2.8.2dev.12)
    * modify LYEdit.c to use HTAddParam - TD

Is this a necessary security feature?  I certainly don't
find it an improvement in function.

-- gil