From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>, 44272-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44272: guix edit doesn't work when $EDITOR is set to "kate"
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 23:55:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86361yyn8c.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEEhgEtuNy85rVxyG6VDBFjAikXoqyS5NkOaUMHEqsPV6Zc0Jg@mail.gmail.com>
Dear,
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 17:28, Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>As Leo said, it does not seem a bug on the Guix side. Well, what could
>> be done on the Guix side? What do you suggest?
> Well, guix could pass different flags if EDITOR is set to "kate". Somehow I
> doubt kate would change their command line flags just because an extremely
> obscure distro-specific tool treats it the same as other text editors.
« Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. »
Especially when all the other text editors use the same convention.
Well, thank you for the report. If many “kate” users request, then
maybe « Although practicality beats purity. »
– from The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters – :-)
> But, whatever. The wrapper works well enough. Thanks.
So closing!
Thanks,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-28 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-28 6:13 bug#44272: guix edit doesn't work when $EDITOR is set to "kate" Nathan Dehnel
2020-10-28 13:05 ` Leo Prikler
2020-10-28 14:52 ` zimoun
2020-10-28 22:28 ` Nathan Dehnel
2020-10-28 22:55 ` zimoun [this message]
2023-11-02 9:32 ` bug#44272: guix edit doesn't work when $EDITOR is set to VSCode Simon Tournier
2023-11-06 17:41 ` Simon Tournier
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