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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: An ELM-editor summary
Message-ID: <14581@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 26 Nov 90 22:23:56 GMT
References: <25094@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <25094@adm.brl.mil> david@rolf.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach) writes:
>At last I can summarize the great search for a bare-bones, stripped-
>down ascii editor for ELM, the ELectronic Mail program (thanks for 
>the correction to lyman@Inference.COM and wuxing@comp.mscs.mu.edu!).  

Of course, what all applications are SUPPOSED to do is to honor the EDITOR
environment variable, and if it is not set, invoke /bin/ed.  Any special
text editor you may wish to provide would have its name set as the value
of EDITOR before starting the application.

Does /bin/ed really not exist on some system?