Date: 18 Jan 2024 23:20:11 -0700
From: "Andy Bradford" <amb-xmhe@bradfords.org>
Message-ID: <20240118232011.1679.qmail@angmar.bradfordfamily.org>
| Ahh, I didn't read the fine print... you said "mh's default", but I
| misunderstood it for "nmh's default".
Yes, I have had the "editor" line in my profile since MH days, (I
have been a user since almost forever) so what nmh did as default
I never knew, which is why I avoided saying that...
I assume the change you indicated happened is to avoid building a
choice of default editors into nmh - prompter is part of the MH
world, so always exists, even though ex/vi is POSIX std, there
really is no guarantee it will exist on every system in the world
(even less for emacs/jove/nano/vim/...) and having "ed" as the default
would simply irritate people.