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

[Andy Bradford]

Thus said Paul Vixie on Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:55:41 -0700:

> i have  not run  comp without  first setting VISUAL  for at  least two
> decades, but  when i used  to do this, it  would print a  message like
> "type your message  below, and then hit control-D" and  then read from
> standard input. when did that change to requiring an external editor?

I generally don't set VISUAL or EDITOR unless I absolutely have to (e.g.
on Ubuntu  which defaults to  nano) as I generally  expect vi to  be the
default.

$ set | grep -E '(EDITOR|VISUAL)'
$ echo $?
1

Andy
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