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Hi,

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:30:23PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:

> *lots* of programs use $PATH and and $EDITOR (or $VISUAL -- why are
> there two?)=20

EDITOR is a generic editor... like, ed or maybe ex.
VISUAL is, traditionally, vi, or any other that needs full screen
capability.

So in Mail, you can use ~v to start the visual editor (if you defined it),
or ~e to force starting the line-oriented $EDITOR.

	-is

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