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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> 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,
 |address@hidden, 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
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