Opened 16 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#14674 closed enhancement (fixed)

Error: No EDITOR is specified in your environment

Reported by: ebgssth@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone: MacPorts 1.7.0
Component: base Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

port edit need EDITOR environment variable to be set. I think it is much better to have default editor.

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port.diff (1.6 KB) - added by ebgssth@… 16 years ago.

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Change History (4)

Changed 16 years ago by ebgssth@…

Attachment: port.diff added

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by kballard (Lily Ballard)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Choice of editor is a polarizing subject - many a holy war has been fought over, e.g. vim vs emacs. Picking a default editor, especially one as crappy as pico, is a bad idea, especially because the people most likely to not have EDITOR already set will probably want a GUI editor.

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Component: portsbase
Resolution: wontfix
Status: closedreopened

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts FutureMacPorts 1.7.0
Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

Was actually done in r36002.

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