Edward Betts wrote: > The solution to that battle is to ask the user. No it's not. sensible-editor already uses $EDITOR if that is set. There's no need to ask the user, they would indicate what editor they prefer in the usual way.
> Debian has a lot of programs that do the same thing. These functions could be > descriped with a functions tag, in the package file. For each package there > could be more than one function. This tag would be slightly similar to the > virtual packages idea, but more advanced. This doesn't scale to a package with multiple binaries in it that perform multiple functions. -- see shy jo