Sander Striker wrote:
>>From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein@lyra.org]
>>Sent: 08 April 2002 20:13
>>
>
>>On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:43:58AM -0500, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>>
>>><<Removed svn@subversion.collab.net from the Cc: list>>
>>>
>>>>I'm with Ben here.
>>>>
>>>For what it's worth, I'm with Ben, too, so long as we have a config
>>>option for disabling pop-up editors. If that is in place, I'm fine
>>>with VI/NOTEPAD as defaults (though I really think they should be in
>>>the svn_private_configs.h/.hw files as a compile time #define,
>>>something like SVN_DEFAULT_TEXT_EDITOR or something).
>>>
>>Wouldn't /bin/false be a good way to disable the functionality? It will
>>return a failure, so we get the whole "abort" thing. Maybe that still isn't
>>quite nice enough, so an "editor = no" option might be possible.
>>
>
>An "editor = no" option is the cleanest way to do it IMO. At least
>the user will think of this. I don't want to document: "if you don't
>want an editor popping up, edit your shell profile by adding a line
>like: export SVN_EDITOR=/bin/false". Seems a bit silly.
>
Not to mention that It Does Not Work On Windows^TM.
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Mon Apr 8 20:50:58 2002