>EDITOR and VISUAL are environment variables - therefore did >not exist before 7th edition (or 32V) - that is, about 79. All of >MH, e, ex, vi, and Mail existed long before those could possibly >have been in use. Exactly when EDITOR first appeared I am >not sure (it was not one of the env vars used by anthing in the >7th edition - the editor there was just ed - no need to be able to >specify an alternative.) VISUAL as an alternative to EDITOR >came much later.
So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
