Better mechanism to choose the default editor (and avoid vi if possible)?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "MK" == Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> writes:
>
>    >> If Mercurial would work harder to find some editor, this could be
>    >> reduced to the tiny fraction of people who have neither nano, nor vi,
>    >> nor emacs, no notepad, nor … installed.
>
>
>    > 2. $EDITOR=emacs
>
>    >    Well, I love emacs but with my convoluted config it starts 20s
>    >    on my laptop.
>
> Yep for me too.

I typically use either emacs -Q or nano.

Both are fast.

But anyway: this is no counter-argument: It just gives some hint on the
right ordering.

Best wishes,
Arne
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