Re: [PATCH] do not open editor in dumb terminal

> 
> If your TERM is set to `emacs' then that is fine.  If it is set to
> `dumb' however, that seems a bit strange.  A dumb terminal is usually
> understood to be one that does not have the ability to interpret control
> sequences.
> 
> The reason I sent the patch is that people get a rather unpleasant
> introduction to git when vi splatters control characters all over their
> emacs session when they do their first commit.  I agree that people
> probably should have their EDITOR set to emacsclient though, so if you
> want to just leave the code as is that's cool with me.
>