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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by fishywang on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:14PM (#14403691)
Maybe someone should file a bug to them? I don't think vim is a sane default value for EDITOR, but I have no idea whether there's any sane alternative on Windows.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by hepek on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:48PM (#14404037)
I believe POSIX defines vi as mandatory visual text editor, which makes it present on any compliant OS and thus a sane default value for EDITOR.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by masklinn on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:00PM (#14404727)
Technically it's part of the optional "User Portability Utilities" feature group, and so is ex, the only mandatory editor in POSIX is "ed".
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by xxs on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:42PM (#14403963)
'nano' is fine
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