Re: bashbug's default editor

From	Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: bashbug's default editor
Date	2020-07-31 11:05 -0400
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On 7/31/20 9:24 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/31/20 4:14 AM, jazz_fan@arcor.de wrote:
> 
>> Bash Version: 5.0
>> Patch Level: 17
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description: bashbug doesn't use vi as default editor
> 
> This is not a bug.

The documentation is confusing (and IMHO wrong).

"If EDITOR is not set, bashbug attempts to locate a number of
alternative editors, including emacs, and defaults to vi."

The word "defaults" there implies that vi is the preferred autolocated
editor, but the intention is to have it the least preferred.

Perhaps...

"If EDITOR is not set, bashbug attempts to locate a number of
alternative editors, including emacs, before falling back to vi."

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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