Thus said Paul Vixie on Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:55:41 -0700: > i have not run comp without first setting VISUAL for at least two > decades, but when i used to do this, it would print a message like > "type your message below, and then hit control-D" and then read from > standard input. when did that change to requiring an external editor?
I generally don't set VISUAL or EDITOR unless I absolutely have to (e.g. on Ubuntu which defaults to nano) as I generally expect vi to be the default. $ set | grep -E '(EDITOR|VISUAL)' $ echo $? 1 Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 400000005aad45d8 -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
