Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Well, the thing about $EDITOR is that it's a very-widely-understood
>>> convention. �This one won't be, so the argument for making it an
>>> environment variable seems pretty thin.
>> 
>> Fwiw the +linenumber convention has been part of $EDITOR since
>> basically as long as vi has existed.

> What precisely do you mean by that?  We've pretty much established
> that the convention is nothing like universally accepted by the
> editors that are out there.

More to the point, what I was saying is that there is no convention out
there for a second environment variable that tells programs calling
$EDITOR how to specify a linenumber argument.
        regards, tom lane