[darcs-users] Re: darcs 1.0.8 not honouring XEDITOR/EDITOR/VISUAL environment variables

[Asfand Yar Qazi]

On 12/29/06, Asfand Yar Qazi <ayqazi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I enter a long comment for a record, darcs keeps pulling up
> GNU Emacs (via the 'emacs' command) even though I've got the VISUAL,
> XEDITOR and EDITOR variables set to use 'xemacs'.  Darcs just doesn't
> seem to be reading those variables.
>
> What can I do to make it do what the manual says it's meant to, i.e.
> read those environment variables and use the contents for the editor
> for long comment?
>
> Thanks
>

Just to make a correction, that should be 'DARCS_EDITOR', not 'XEDITOR'