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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
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Ken Hornstein |
Subject: |
Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:29:30 -0400 |
>EDITOR and VISUAL are environment variables - therefore did
>not exist before 7th edition (or 32V) - that is, about 79. All of
>MH, e, ex, vi, and Mail existed long before those could possibly
>have been in use. Exactly when EDITOR first appeared I am
>not sure (it was not one of the env vars used by anthing in the
>7th edition - the editor there was just ed - no need to be able to
>specify an alternative.) VISUAL as an alternative to EDITOR
>came much later.
So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the
distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never
understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other.
--Ken
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/17
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/18
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???,
Ken Hornstein <=
- 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
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