[Conkeror] A few issues with spawning external editors

[Nelson Elhage]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:25:04PM -0400, John J Foerch wrote:
> Hi Axel,
> 
>   Just curious if there has been any change of status on any of the bugs
> discussed in this thread.  I think conkeror now does attach stdin of the
> editor to /dev/null/, though I haven't been following these issues
> closely.
> 
>   Now a philosophical question: should conkeror even use the EDITOR
> environment variable, or should it only use VISUAL?  Using EDITOR at all
> seems too laden with assumptions about how well the machine is
> configured.

I'm not sure what you mean, but using EDITOR seems like the standard
thing to do... I set EDITOR to an emacsclient invoke in my .xsession,
and I generally expect anything that might need to use an editor to
respect it.

- Nelson

> 
>   Just some thoughts.
> 
> -- 
> John Foerch
> 
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