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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-09-16 00:39:39 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-09-16 00:39:39 +0000
commite8a8d2a5b99b27f1aea2b6076d92f0751f514a29 (patch)
tree08faa4afae40c6e816f18878641f5c20bb84fb60 /Build/source
parent14c7fd46eb994879e14d10b636bcd97a0a3237e8 (diff)
more doc about EDITOR
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@4951 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/web2c/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/web2c/c-auto.in6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/web2c/ChangeLog b/Build/source/texk/web2c/ChangeLog
index 21c7dc16505..fe1e6e2b8c4 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/web2c/ChangeLog
+++ b/Build/source/texk/web2c/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-09-16 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
+
+ * c-auto.in (EDITOR): doc fix.
+
2007-09-12 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
* c-auto.in (EDITOR) [WIN32]: need "", and emacs preferred.
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/web2c/c-auto.in b/Build/source/texk/web2c/c-auto.in
index 3742c8b1880..57cda6c0ef2 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/web2c/c-auto.in
+++ b/Build/source/texk/web2c/c-auto.in
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@
Faster on LittleEndian architectures. */
#undef NO_DUMP_SHARE
-/* web2c: Default editor for interactive `e' option. */
+/* web2c: Default editor for interactive `e' option. Although we'd like
+ to use ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-foo}} here, chances are a user's editor
+ won't understand +lineno, so they'll just have to override
+ TEXEDIT/MFEDIT/MPEDIT to get what they want. No particular reason
+ for emacs vs. vi, just historical. */
#ifdef WIN32
#define EDITOR "emacs +%d \"%s\""
#else