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Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-05T01:32:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Well, the thing about $EDITOR is that it's a very-widely-understood
>> convention.  This one won't be, so the argument for making it an
>> environment variable seems pretty thin.
>
> Fwiw the +linenumber convention has been part of $EDITOR since
> basically as long as vi has existed.

What precisely do you mean by that?  We've pretty much established
that the convention is nothing like universally accepted by the
editors that are out there.

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Robert Haas
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