From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:32:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: lazily assign editor variable
Message-ID: <7v39zmlvz1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100325051743.GB5784@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, please.  It would be more precise to
>
>   s/without a tty/with TERM=dumb/
>
> in the second paragraph but regardless this is a good description of the
> problem.

Strictly speaking, with TERM=dumb the true "vi" fell back to the ex mode
and should have been usable.  A purist might say it is a bug that we fatal
out in this case (I know that it is deliberately done to help newbies from
common confusion by not running any editor with TERM=dumb, but to a purist
in me it feels somewhat wrong).