Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch
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Msg-id AANLkTiki9o_h4RR1Kt1ENODHGB-+K37hAY1ZNW6nKfPX@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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.


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greg


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