Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I am a bit uncomfortable with this error in general. It makes some
> sense to refuse to use $VISUAL and fall back to $EDITOR if TERM=dumb,
> since without this the distinction between VISUAL and EDITOR is not
> very useful.
More importantly, that is what people traditionally expected from VISUAL
and EDITOR and we do that only to follow suit.
There is no such tradition for GIT_EDITOR nor core.editor and switching
behaviour based on the name of editor ("vi"? "vim"?...) does not feel
quite right.
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