configure/make/install options for compiling applications from source into

[Mark Duling]

"Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> writes:
>EDITOR is an environment variable that port uses to decide which text  
>editor to invoke when you type 'port edit foo'
>
>With bash, you'd want to do something like 'export EDITOR=nano' (or  
>vi or emacs or whatever)
>
>We could probably have it default to nano if no editor is specified,  
>though.

Oooh.  That would be nice for people who are new to Unix, and also for us
who assist them.  Could that be put on the TODO list, wherever it is?

Mark