Refuse to use $VISUAL and fall back to $EDITOR if TERM is unset
or set to "dumb". Traditionally, VISUAL is set to a screen
editor and EDITOR to a line-based editor, which should be more
useful in that situation.
vim, for example, is happy to assume a terminal supports ANSI
sequences even if TERM is dumb (e.g., when running from a text
editor like Acme). git already refuses to fall back to vi on a
dumb terminal if GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, VISUAL, and EDITOR are
unset, but without this patch, that check is suppressed by
VISUAL=vi.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch eases my discomfort about the error message a little. It
is not actually needed to support any ways of working I engage in.
If stdout is redirected, this is probably still making the wrong
choice; isatty(STDOUT_FILENO) might be a more useful datum to use.
But it does not seem worth complicating the logic further.
editor.c | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/editor.c b/editor.c
index 941c0b2..3f13751 100644
--- a/editor.c
+++ b/editor.c
@@ -4,19 +4,19 @@
int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *env)
{
- const char *editor, *terminal;
+ const char *editor = getenv("GIT_EDITOR");
+ const char *terminal = getenv("TERM");
+ int terminal_is_dumb = !terminal || !strcmp(terminal, "dumb");
- editor = getenv("GIT_EDITOR");
if (!editor && editor_program)
editor = editor_program;
- if (!editor)
+ if (!editor && !terminal_is_dumb)
editor = getenv("VISUAL");
if (!editor)
editor = getenv("EDITOR");
- terminal = getenv("TERM");
- if (!editor && (!terminal || !strcmp(terminal, "dumb")))
- return error("Terminal is dumb but no VISUAL nor EDITOR defined.");
+ if (!editor && terminal_is_dumb)
+ return error("terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset");
if (!editor)
editor = "vi";
--
1.6.5.2
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