| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch |
| Date: | 2010-08-05 02:31:48 |
| Message-ID: | 19633.1280975508@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Well, the thing about $EDITOR is that it's a very-widely-understood
>>> convention. This one won't be, so the argument for making it an
>>> environment variable seems pretty thin.
>>
>> Fwiw the +linenumber convention has been part of $EDITOR since
>> basically as long as vi has existed.
> What precisely do you mean by that? We've pretty much established
> that the convention is nothing like universally accepted by the
> editors that are out there.
More to the point, what I was saying is that there is no convention out
there for a second environment variable that tells programs calling
$EDITOR how to specify a linenumber argument.
regards, tom lane
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