Hi Jon, > Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. > My Fedora Core 27 installation
What is Fedora Core 27? :-) Fedora 26 is the latest version, so 27 might be Fedora Devel, but then you said it's crusty as if the 27 is a typo for something older, but they stopped calling it Core with Core 6, which is very crusty; 2006. > I think that a run-time error message of the form "No editor defined. > Set EDITOR or VISUAL in your environment , or Editor in your > .mh_profile" is a better way to go. It would be nice to see what you're seeing. Using $VISUAL, $EDITOR, then `vi', as Ken said, is fine, but should not create a packaging `requires' on a `vi', or even a `suggests' IMO. As Paul said, the error message when running vi fails just needs to be clear. I imagine Emacs users out there would not like to have to install vi just for this; imagine if it was the other way around. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
