Bug 49232
Summary: | updated elm defaults to emacs as editor previous was vi | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Henri Schlereth <henris> |
Component: | elm | Assignee: | Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | srevivo |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-07-17 15:39:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Henri Schlereth
2001-07-17 09:05:11 UTC
Hmmmm... detected when creating the config file, as I obviously have it installed. Oh well... just specify the editor in your config file or set EDITOR. Or install emacs, of course :) I'm re-opening this defect (a) at the request of the submitter, and (b) because I agree that changing the default editor without adequate justification is a defect. If it is determined that the upstream maintainer of elm changed this, then this defect can be closed (again). But if this is a typo (or a thinko), the original "default behavior" must be re-instated. What happened is that elm picks up the default editor (EDITOR) on your system when configuring... which is emacs on my system. This is just the default pick, and should be overriden with your EDITOR variable or config file. While not a bug, it is a change in behaviour which it will be hardcoded not to to do in future releases. 2.5.5-3 is back to vi as default (which looks like a natural match for elm). Flame wars aside (emacs vs. vi) . The mystery question is why did it default to emacs when emacs is not installed? It should have picked vi then, shouldnt it? Since this is a vanilla 7.1 plus patches where is the default EDITOR set? In the environmental variables or in elmrc or $HOME/.elm/elmrc? It will use the EDITOR variable anytime, but the default is only detected during the configure phase. |