Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Well, the thing about $EDITOR is that it's a very-widely-understood >>> convention. This one won't be, so the argument for making it an >>> environment variable seems pretty thin. >> >> Fwiw the +linenumber convention has been part of $EDITOR since >> basically as long as vi has existed.
> What precisely do you mean by that? We've pretty much established > that the convention is nothing like universally accepted by the > editors that are out there. More to the point, what I was saying is that there is no convention out there for a second environment variable that tells programs calling $EDITOR how to specify a linenumber argument. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers