in reply to Re^2: How to launch vim from Perl
in thread How to launch vim from Perl

So you launch vim pointed at a temporary file
I prefer to lauch $ENV{EDITOR}. Use vim if the user doesn't have this set, but if the user has gone to the trouble to set her editor to emacs, don't force vim down her throat.

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