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.
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greg