From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:56:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: bash_profile: Split check-for-program code into its own function.
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/profile/commitdiff_plain/2041672dbfb29ef4baf4a73118edd6bdf8fcc106?ds=inline;hp=-c

bash_profile: Split check-for-program code into its own function.

I'll want this later on.
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2041672dbfb29ef4baf4a73118edd6bdf8fcc106
diff --git a/bash_profile b/bash_profile
index 22931b0..287f3cb 100644
--- a/bash_profile
+++ b/bash_profile
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ if [ -d /usr/local/plan9 ]; then
     $PLAN9/bin
 fi
 
+# --- Find whether a program exists ---
+
+__mdw_programp () { type -t >/dev/null "$1"; }
+
 # --- And the same for manual pages ---
 
 case "$MACHTIME" in
@@ -103,7 +107,7 @@ export QMAILINJECT=c
 export EDITOR=ed
 for ed in "emacs21 -nw" "emacs -nw" vi pico nano ae; do
   name=`echo $ed | sed 's/ .*$//'`
-  if type -t >/dev/null "$name"; then
+  if __mdw_programp "$name"; then
     EDITOR=$ed
     break
   fi