Le 2024-01-19 à 09:10, Robert Elz a écrit :
Date: 18 Jan 2024 23:20:11 -0700 From: "Andy Bradford" <amb-x...@bradfords.org> Message-ID: <20240118232011.1679.qm...@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.
Unfortunately, even ed is not on every system, eg. Debian by default has vi/ex but not ed.
-- Thomas
