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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Bakul Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
 |On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:57:28 +0700 Robert Elz <address@hidden> wrote:
 |Robert Elz writes:
 |>     Date:        Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:43:37 +0100
 |>     From:        Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden>
 |>     Message-ID:  <address@hidden>
 |> 
 |>| BSD Mail had both of ~v and ~e from the very start.  I know of no
 |>| known released file which acted otherwise.
 |> 
 |> Including in the first BSD distribution tape (1BSD) before vi existed \
 |> (also 
 |> before csh existed, but that's unrelated...) ??
 |
 |I looked at 1bsd and 2bsd distributions. I don't see Mail in
 |1bsd but it is included in 2bsd and uses VISUAL for ~v and
 |EDITOR for ~e.

No, it cannot be in 1BSD if we trust

  /*
   * Mail -- a mail program
   *
   * Author: Kurt Shoens (UCB) March 25, 1978
   */

--steffen
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