"Bort, Paul" <pbort@tmwsystems.com> writes:
> I like Kevin Brown's suggestion of writing out a temporary .txt file and
> 'executing' it. It will follow the principle of least suprise for Windows
> users.
Note that the current default behavior (assuming you've not set EDITOR)
is "vi foo.txt" which is quite unlikely to be helpful to a Windows user.
I'm not sure we need to do the "execute a textfile" bit, but at the very
least DEFAULT_EDITOR should probably be "notepad.exe" on Windows.
regards, tom lane
