Re: [PATCH] Documentation: replace 'vi' for 'editor' to reflect build-time option
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Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
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- Mar 31, 2012, 20:29 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes: > >> Filling in the blank at compile time would be possible, but I'm not >> convinced it's a good idea. Wouldn't the same user be just as puzzled >> when >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git-htmldocs.git;a=blob_plain;f=git-var.html >> >> (or whatever page with a nicer URL arises to replace the old >> www.kernel.org/... pages) says the fallback is 'vi' and git behaves >> differently? > > I've already rejected this patch once, but that was primarily because the > patch was not justified with the above "I read everybody else's git uses > 'vi' on the Interweb, and even though my distro's manual page says it uses > 'nano', I didn't bother to read it." scenario.
I like this original patch, and I like being able to refer to "the" online docs wherever I and google may happen to find them.
Because "my distro" may be a resource-constrained minimal OS which omitted the git manual. The same system for similar reasons may default to 'nano' & 'more' if vi and less are unavailable.
Phil