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RE: issue #604 report

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2002-01-24 14:58:21 CET

> > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:07:30 +0100 (MET)
> > From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
> > To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: issue #604 report
> >
> > * If no commit message is given, it fires up an editor for you. The editor
> > is picked from environment variables, and they're tried in this order:
> > SVN_EDITOR, EDITOR, VISUAL and if none of them are set, notepad.exe
> > is used on win32 machines and /bin/vi on all other.
>
> roman@roman ~ > which vi
> /usr/bin/vi
> roman@roman ~ > ls /bin
> [ df ln rcp stty
> cat domainname ls realpath sync
> chio echo ls-orig red tcsh
> chmod ed mkdir rm test
> cp expr mv rmail unlink
> csh hostname pax rmdir zsh
> date kill ps sh
> dd link pwd sleep
> roman@roman ~ > uname -a
> FreeBSD roman.mobil.cz 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 26
> 12:45:18 CET 2001
> root@roman.mobil.cz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CRUDPUPPY_3 i386

Hmmm, I don't know about you, but when I only can mount / because
/usr is busted: I want my vi. But, you have a point. vi cannot be
trusted to be in /bin. However, in that unfortunate case, you've
had three chances to specify the correct path: SVN_EDITOR, EDITOR and
VISUAL.

Sander

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