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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 04:47:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 06:40:36 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> It's IMO generally a good approach to not force folks to use some
> specific (or even proprietary) editor in context of an application.

Checking the $EDITOR environment variable is common practice.