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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: VISUAL/EDITOR = emacs in ksh
Message-ID: <632@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 05:16:15 GMT
References: <464@cpsolv.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
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In article <464@cpsolv.UUCP> rhg@cpsolv.uucp (Richard H. Gumpertz) writes:
>I am using ksh on a AT&T 7300 (operating system release 3.51, which is roughly
>equivalent to V 2) and have a few questions:
>
>1) What is the difference between using VISUAL=emacs and EDITOR=emacs?  Why
>   should I prefer one over the other?
[2 and 3 deleted]

Maybe unrelated, but this line came from a strings on ksh:

fc -e "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}}" 


John
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