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

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>

From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-05T00:50:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.


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greg