Understanding what I am calling the mess that is perl modules

[Kurt Hillig]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2009, at 06:34, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
> [snip]
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>> Also, is there any way for EDITOR to be dynamic, so that when I am on the 
>> actual machine I want to use mate as my editor, but if I am over ssh, I 
>> want to use a terminal based editor.  Is that just a matter of wrapping the 
>> default in a condition that checks where I am at?
>
> I would also be interested in knowing how to set that up. I've wanted this 
> many times but never really looked into what I would need to do.

If you always use ssh for remote logins then you can test for the 
existence of the SSH_CLIENT environment variable.  It doesn't exist when 
you're logged in locally.

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