Re: CVS commit: othersrc

[woods%weird.com@localhost (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Friday, May 5, 2000 at 00:42:53 (+0930), Brett Lymn wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: othersrc
>
> According to Perry E. Metzger:
> >
> >Maybe "edit" should be a program that invokes your favorite editor
> >depending on your EDITOR variable? Sure, it is not what people might
> >expect in some contexts, but it may be better overall....
> >
> 
> This would be a very good thing to do - if EDITOR is not set just use
> the basic editor 

Doing this in an entirely new and separate program seems extremely
wasteful and inelegant to me.

Why not just put appropriate aliases/functions in the system-wide
startup profiles?!?!?!?

Personally I've been using this (or its csh equivalent) for at least a
dozen years now, if not more:

        $ alias e
        e='${VISUAL:-$EDITOR}'

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