[neomutt-users] Heads up - built-in editor is going away

[Anton Rieger]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30:09AM +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>with https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/2385 I am proposing to
>remove the code supporting the built-in editor. That is the message
>editor you get with 'set editor=builtin'. This is not the default.

I didn't even knew it existed.
The manpage only mentions ``builtin'' for ``pager''.

»       editor
               Type: command
               Default: "vi"

               This variable specifies which editor is used by NeoMutt.  It defaults to the
               value of the $VISUAL, or $EDITOR, environment variable,  or  to  the  string
               "vi" if neither of those are set.

               The  $editor  string  may contain a %s escape, which will be replaced by the
               name of the file to be edited.  If the %s escape does not appear in $editor,
               a space and the name to be edited are appended.

               The resulting string is then executed by running

               sh -c 'string'

               where string is the expansion of $editor described above.
«

>
>I personally don't see a reason to use the built-in editor instead of
>relying on an external editor of choice. Removing the built-in editor
>means getting rid of ~600 lines of almost unmaintained and little
>known code.
+1 from me

>However, if you consider the feature important to you and would like to keep it, please
>speak up so we can consider the pros and cons.
>
>Otherwise, I plan to merge the PR in ~ 1 week from now.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Pietro Cerutti