Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: |>> so a program like mail would offer two escapes (~e vs. ~v) to let |>> yo invoke either. |> |> So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed |> was 9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd |> use EDITOR? | |No, AFAIK it was always the user's choice. mail(1) had the `~e' escape |and then added a `~v' one, with VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables |echoing the cpp(1) macro names of the default values. Kurt Shoens, |k...@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, is down as the author in |BSD-1-253-gc145e9e0ab5 of |https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.
BSD Mail had both of ~v and ~e from the very start. I know of no known released file which acted otherwise. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers