On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:42:01AM -0800, Britton wrote: > > Perhaps we should > > 1. Not ship with EDITOR/PAGER set to anything by default (well written old > standalone programs should then default to vi and more, or get a bug > report).
This is already the case. See section 10.9 > 2. Always honor EDITOR/PAGER if they are set. This is already the case. See section 12.4 > 3. Make sure GNOME programs can be set up to launch a different editor > than $EDITOR/$PAGER with user intervention. > This approach translate as "if I don't know whats going on, give me the > upstream author's default, otherwise, give me my favorite editor unless > I've already specified that it doesn't work well for this application". Could you expend how 1 2 3 above implement that? Anyway, I disagree with this approach. The correct approach is 'if I don't know whats going on, give me a consistant default i.e. always the same for a given configuration, not a default that change for each launcher programs.' > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Bill Allombert wrote: Please search for 'top posting' on google. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
