From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 18 20:35:13 2005
Subject: Re: Bug#290470: octave2.1: Octave's bug_report needs emacs or $EDITOR
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
Cc: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian dot org>, bug@octave.org,         Thomas Weber <weber@num.uni-sb.de>, 290470@bugs.debian.org
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:38:20 -0500

On 18-Jan-2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org> wrote:

| IIRC correctly, Thomas reported that (correctly, I may add) directly to the
| bug list for Octave (this being an upstream issue, after all).  In doing so,
| he noticed the bug_report failure. I think I'd consider that upstream too,
| though we could apply a Debian only patch. I general I do not like such
| forks, though. 

I'd be happy to fix Octave, but what is the right fix?  The bug report
script uses

  : ${EDITOR=emacs}

What would be better (and portable)?

jwe



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