[sf-perl] Debugger goodness

David Fetter david at fetter.org
Sat Mar 4 12:13:01 PST 2006


On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:22:12AM -0800, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> 
> Quinn Weaver <qw at sf.pm.org> wrote:
> 
> > David Alban wrote:
> > 
> > > [Useful debugger tips]
> > 
> > >   export EDITOR=vim
> > 
> > Just to be pedantic, some BSD systems expect you to use VISUAL
> > instead of editor (and commands like 'crontab -e' don't honor
> > EDITOR).  So you should always do something like this in your
> > .bash_profile:
> > 
> > export EDITOR=whatever
> > export VISUAL=$EDITOR
> > 
> > Silly, huh?
> 
> The emacs-way of doing this is more like:
> 
>   export EDITOR=emacsclient
> 
> And in your .emacs you put the line: 
> 
>   (server-start)

How could I have missed it?!? ;)

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Cheers,
D
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