`port edit`, local/console vs. remote use

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday December 7 2016 12:49:52 Rainer Müller wrote:

>If you still need something shorter, think about a shell function or alias.

No, now that I thought of a suitable and simple patch I can add to my port:MacPorts-devel I'll just use that.

My question about the weird port_${action}_editor variable still stands though. What's that about?

R