On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 08:44 +0800, Qiyu Yan wrote: > What about to provide a prompt to the user telling them the difference > between editors? > For example, when a new user to fedora first invokes git commit > without $EDITOR set, a program named fedora-default-editor comes up > and asks: Which editor do you like? > User can do his or hers choice and the choice will be remembered by > setting $EDITOR in his or hers ~/.bashrc > > The fedora-default-editor can be a small script that shows user all > the difference and set $EDITOR for the user.
It's a nice idea, but the problem with things like this is they *always* introduce bugs, and often wind up being unmaintained, because keeping them working is kind of a thankless task. IMHO it's better to keep things simple and just pick a default. And the default should definitely be nano. :D -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
