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

[PIERRE AUGIER]

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> De: "Marcus Harnisch" <mh-mercurial at online.de>
> À: "mercurial" <mercurial at mercurial-scm.org>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 29 Mai 2020 17:38:59
> Objet: Re: Better mechanism to choose the default editor (and avoid vi if possible)?

> Is it safe to assume that users who are disturbed by this default
> behaviour are likely to work in a desktop session? In that case we could
> make use of XDG, no? I just tried ‘xdg-open ~/.config/hg/hgrc’ and it
> popped up the configured plain text editor.
> 

Yes, I agree that we can assume that users who are disturbed by this default behavior are likely to work in a desktop session, so `xdg-open` seems to be the right command.

Maybe `open` can be used on OSX and `start` on Windows?

> Hg is already inspecting XDG_CONFIG_HOME (another XDG facility) for
> locating the configuration file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Marcus
> 
> 
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