>> ... it turns out the default editor back in the day (if you didn't >> configure one with mhconfig) was "prompter", which would give you a >> kind of very simple message input interface (but not exactly like you >> describe). > >prompter is what i was thinking of. repl and forw also used it. it was >great, because after i screwed something up and needed to get into an >editor, i could say ^D and something would ask "What now?" and i'd give >it some instruction that would _then_ start my visual editor of choice.
Yeah, I tried it quickly and it seems simple enough. And people who have editor in their profile or use EDITOR/VISUAL won't notice a change. >> That suggests to >> me that maybe the default editor (in absence of any environment >> variables) should be prompter, actually > >i think it should still be prompter, so that we have no editor >assumption or dependency. That sounds reasonable to me. Thoughts, objections? David, I saw your reply and it sounds like you'd be okay with that, unless I misunderstood you. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
