Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:47:24 -0400 From: David Levine <levin...@acm.org> Message-ID: <2558-1521395244.835...@bijr.xoxa.ckyx>
| The precendence in order from high to low is: 1) editor | component, 2) VISUAL, 3) EDITOR. Actually, just to be precise, before those comes the -editor switch to the program (comp, repl, etc). I too have had an "editor" component in $MH_PROFILE for a very very long time now, and had no idea that the default editor had been switched away from prompter (and I am glad to hear it has been switched back) - but I have continued to use prompter from time to time, especially with "repl" via the -editor switch (-ed) when the reply is going to be something very simple, like "OK" It is much easier & quicker to drive than any real editor for things like that. I also suspect that many of you do not recall using MH back when the only real alternative editors to prompter were not vi or emacs (or semi-clones to one of those) but ed or Rand's 'e' and a few others similar (em from QMC for example) - I don't think ex is quite as old as MH (and vi certainly is not, not even as an ex cmd.) kre -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers