The problem is access - i don't have root access on most systems, and many others don't have compilers, or have quota limitations, weird/old OS versions, etc. So -m, which works the same in all environments, has become what my fingers "just do" without having to be told.
----- stephan Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity and typos. On Oct 6, 2014 10:06 PM, "David Mason" <dma...@ryerson.ca> wrote: > On 6 October 2014 15:05, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > good reason not to use -m and rely on $EDITOR instead. i think my > problem is > > that i regularly use 2 (sometimes 3) SCMs, namely fossil, svn, and > > (sometimes) git, often over a remote connection on systems with no emacs > > installed (and emacs takes too long to start for a short commit message). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS or mg > > fossil set --global editor /usr/local/bin/mg > > and type emacs once per boot for your real editing environment (and > you can even point $EDITOR to emacsclient since fossil has its own > editor setting). Now if there was a setting for "throw whatever I > type after -m into an edit buffer anyway" then you could continue to > use -m for those other SCMs and fossil would protect you. > > ../Dave > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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