Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:44:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mergemaster: Change in description of envar handling Message-ID: <395B7CF2.AAFEAEB5@gorean.org> References: <57199.962270621@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> I'd like to propose a change to the wording of a warning displayed by
> mergemaster:
>
> *** Your PAGER environment variable specifies 'less', but
> I cannot execute it. In general it is good practice to
> specify the full path for environment variables like
> PAGER and EDITOR. Meanwhile, what would you like to do?
> What I _would_ like to address is the incorrect description of "good
> practice" with respect to environment variables.
>
> It is very commonly accepted practice to set EDITOR, PAGER and the like
> using partial pathnames.
Commonly accepted != good. :)
> Would you be happy with this change?
No. I already conceded part of this point a while back when I developed
the .mergemasterrc mechanism so that people could specify their own PATH
(among other things), so there is already a way out of this for those
who are not interested in specifying the full path to their PAGER. I'm
definitely not going to support a text change which moves away from
encouraging "best practice."
I do have some changes for mergemaster coming that I hope to wrap up
during the long weekend. Stay tuned.
Doug
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