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Re: $EDITOR idea

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2002-10-03 19:03:41 CEST

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> I always end up using a quick macro to hack off the first so many
> characters of, and prepend '* ' to, each line anyway. 4 more
> characters to remove is a negligible cost.

Ahhh, macros. Not every soul has discovered emacs, however. :-)

> If it's a matter of choosing *either* the SVN: prefixes *or* some
> magic line that means "from here down, things are toast", whatever,
> but I don't see a need for both.

Totally agree. I'm advocating the single line *instead* of SVN:
prefixes.

But I'm going to shut up about this issue now, for two reasons:

  1. I've never used the $EDITOR feature in my entire life, either
      with CVS or SVN.

  2. I'm not about to code this change. :-)

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