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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
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Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:27 -0400 |
ralph wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> > > mail(1) had the `~e' escape and then added a `~v' one, with VISUAL
> > > and EDITOR environment variables echoing the cpp(1) macro names of
> > > the default values. Kurt Shoens, address@hidden, is down
> > > as the author in BSD-1-253-gc145e9e0ab5 of
> > > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.
> >
> > BSD Mail had both of ~v and ~e from the very start. I know of no
> > known released file which acted otherwise.
>
> But peering at doc/Mail/mail3.nr in BSD-1-3-gfc8c50acc08, so just after
> BSD 1 was cut, I see it documents all the tilde escapes and has `~e' but
> no `~v'.
> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/fc8c50acc0870bf28753d3508770428682e915bb/doc/Mail/mail3.nr
>
> By the time of BSD-1-54-ge684660a6a2, src/Mail/Mail.help.~ lists both.
> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/e684660a6a291c1e4672912bc1b80ffb00934623/src/Mail/Mail.help.%7E
>
> So although the released code had both, I think it's likely that `~e'
> was there on its own, and then `~v' added as ex's vi mode came along.
> I also noticed that Mail's string option was at one point `EDITOR' for one
> and `VISEDITOR' for the other; also suggestive that one came first
> rather than both together.
>
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/19
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/20
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/21
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