On 02-Jun-99, 06:22 (CDT), Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Policy states that programms should use $EDITOR if set and else use > editor as the prefered editor, but why not just use sensible-editor? > > sensible-editor will behave as needed by the current policy, but is > more flexible. It could start xemacs on X and zile on console or do > other additional checks. I think policy should state that programs > should use sensible-editor as their editor.
What Ray said, only more so. Programs must use $EDITOR if available, because that is what the user sets. However, the "sensible-editor" idea is somewhat independent, in that iff EDITOR is not set, it could adjust according to situation (console vs. X). However, I forsee a long battle about which editors make into sensible editor, and all kinds of fall-back issues. And is it really that big a deal if a console editor gets brought up during an X session -- because most uses of $EDITOR occur while using console programs anyway (crontab, MUAs, News readers, etc.). So I guess I'd prefer to leave the situation as it is. Steve
