Hi Nicholas,
today while researching something for a user I found this gem in POSIX:
-e editor
Use the editor named by editor to edit the commands. The editor
string is a utility name, subject to search via the PATH
variable (see XBD [8]Environment Variables). The value in the
FCEDIT variable shall be used as a default when -e is not
specified. If FCEDIT is null or unset, [9]ed shall be used as
the editor.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fc.html#tag_20_44_04
I thought you might want to know, and revert your change to use ex(1).
I’m posting this to both old bugreports so the BTS archives contain
the complete discussion/information in case someone wonders about
this in the future; I’ll re-archive these bugs directly afterwards.
bye,
//mirabilos
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Yay for having to rewrite other people's Bash scripts because bash
suddenly stopped supporting the bash extensions they make use of
-- Tonnerre Lombard in #nosec
