config change_editor is undiscoverable

Bug #708716 reported by John A Meinel
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
Breezy
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

At the moment when shelving interactively, the 'edit' function is hidden if you have not defined a change editor.

It would be better if the functionality was shown, and selecting it warned you that you need to configure it. The options I see, are:

Tell the user no change_editor is set and:

1) Prompt them for one to use, and set the variable for them
2) Fall back to the "find_editor" code that we use for commit messages. Not 100% relevant because the editor will be passed 2 files, not just one.
3) Let them know how they can configure it, if they want to do so and come back.

Tags: config doc easy
Revision history for this message
dmuir (dmuir) wrote :

Might be good to add it to the configuration docs as well.

Vincent Ladeuil (vila)
tags: added: config doc easy
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: check-for-breezy
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: removed: check-for-breezy
Changed in brz:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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