[Conkeror] Shouldn't external-editor invoke VISUAL instead of EDITOR

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard jeremy at jeremyms.com
Tue May 13 22:06:17 PDT 2008


Tassilo Horn <tassilo at member.fsf.org> writes:

> Hi,
> isn't EDITOR usually meant to be set to a command line editor and VISUAL
> to be some graphical editor?  For example, I have

>    EDITOR="emacsclient -t" and
>    VISUAL="emacsclient -c"

> so C-i in a text area will open a emacsclient in the shell conkeror was
> started.  Usually I start it with some launcher app, so I even won't see
> it.

> So at least I'd suggest to let VISUAL take preference over EDITOR if
> that's defined.

I wasn't aware of VISUAL.  Thanks for letting me know.  I'll make that
change.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard


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