[bug #24053] start with vi keys by default if EDITOR matches vi?

[dan pritts]

URL:
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                 Summary: start with vi keys by default if EDITOR matches vi?
                 Project: texinfo - GNU documentation system
            Submitted by: danpritts
            Submitted on: Tuesday 08/12/2008 at 20:03
                Category: info
                 Release: 4.12
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: enhancement
                 Privacy: Public
             Open/Closed: Open
             Assigned to: None
                  Status: None
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

The one really useful thing I did find in the manual page was that there is a
set of vi keybindings; i think that's great. 

I'm not entirely sure this is the right thing to do, but it might be a good
idea to use these keybindings by default if the string "vi" is in the EDITOR
environment variable.  I'd want to match /bin/vi, /usr/local/bin/vim, etc; so
just look for a substring.  

If you do this, it might be a good idea to have a splash screen at the
beginning of the info program saying you've done so, and add a command-line
option to get rid of it, overriding whatever's in EDITOR.  




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