From: ziplock@yabbs
To: htoaster@yabbs
Subject: re: unix mail
Date: Sun Nov  7 22:15:17 1993

>the bsd mail program really isn't that bad if you learn how to use it.  
>You can tell it to run an external editor instead of the builtin using
>the command ~v, which will run whatever your EDITOR is set to (or vi,
>which is the default).
 
not to nitpick (or gee, this does sound like a nitpick ;) but ~v
is for the VISUAL variable.  ~e is for EDITOR.  ~e will default to
"ed" unless you setenv to something else.  The point is that you can
just use those two flags to define *any* two editors you want, even
though ~e used to be for the line editor (ie, you could make ~e=emacs
and ~v=vi if you were a sick person).