VISUAL/EDITOR = emacs in ksh

[John B. Milton]

In article <464 at cpsolv.UUCP> rhg at cpsolv.uucp (Richard H. Gumpertz) writes:
>I am using ksh on a AT&T 7300 (operating system release 3.51, which is roughly
>equivalent to V 2) and have a few questions:
>
>1) What is the difference between using VISUAL=emacs and EDITOR=emacs?  Why
>   should I prefer one over the other?
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Maybe unrelated, but this line came from a strings on ksh:

fc -e "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}}" 


John
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