Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

[Ken Hornstein]

>> ... it turns out the default editor back in the day (if you didn't
>> configure one with mhconfig) was "prompter", which would give you a
>> kind of very simple message input interface (but not exactly like you
>> describe).
>
>prompter is what i was thinking of. repl and forw also used it. it was 
>great, because after i screwed something up and needed to get into an 
>editor, i could say ^D and something would ask "What now?" and i'd give 
>it some instruction that would _then_ start my visual editor of choice.

Yeah, I tried it quickly and it seems simple enough.  And people who have
editor in their profile or use EDITOR/VISUAL won't notice a change.

>> That suggests to
>> me that maybe the default editor (in absence of any environment
>> variables) should be prompter, actually
>
>i think it should still be prompter, so that we have no editor 
>assumption or dependency.

That sounds reasonable to me.  Thoughts, objections?  David, I saw
your reply and it sounds like you'd be okay with that, unless I
misunderstood you.

--Ken