Expose the command used by launch_editor() for scripts to use. This should allow one to avoid searching for a proper editor separately in each command. git_editor(void) uses the logic to decide which editor to use that used to live in launch_editor(). The function returns NULL if there is no suitable editor; the caller is expected to issue an error message when appropriate. launch_editor() uses git_editor() and gives the error message the same way as before when EDITOR is not set. "git var GIT_EDITOR" gives the editor name, or an error message when there is no appropriate one. "git var -l" gives GIT_EDITOR=name only if there is an appropriate editor. Originally-submitted-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes from the version in pu: * unsquashed with the previous patch; * replaces Hannes’s sign-off with something more descriptive (see <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/131471/focus=131851>); * nicer commit message based on Junio’s summary. Documentation/git-var.txt | 8 ++++++++ cache.h | 1 + editor.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- var.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-var.txt b/Documentation/git-var.txt index e2f4c09..89e4b4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-var.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-var.txt @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT:: GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT:: The person who put a piece of code into git. +GIT_EDITOR:: + Text editor for use by git commands. The value is meant to be + interpreted by the shell when it is used. Examples: `~/bin/vi`, + `$SOME_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE`, `"C:\Program Files\Vim\gvim.exe" + --nofork`. The order of preference is the `$GIT_EDITOR` + environment variable, then `core.editor` configuration, then + `$VISUAL`, then `$EDITOR`, and then finally 'vi'. + Diagnostics ----------- You don't exist. Go away!:: diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h index 96840c7..311cfe1 100644 --- a/cache.h +++ b/cache.h @@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ extern const char *git_author_info(int); extern const char *git_committer_info(int); extern const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str, int); extern const char *fmt_name(const char *name, const char *email); +extern const char *git_editor(void); struct checkout { const char *base_dir; diff --git a/editor.c b/editor.c index 3f13751..70618f1 100644 --- a/editor.c +++ b/editor.c @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #include "strbuf.h" #include "run-command.h" -int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *env) +const char *git_editor(void) { const char *editor = getenv("GIT_EDITOR"); const char *terminal = getenv("TERM"); @@ -16,11 +16,21 @@ int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *en editor = getenv("EDITOR"); if (!editor && terminal_is_dumb) - return error("terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset"); + return NULL; if (!editor) editor = "vi"; + return editor; +} + +int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *env) +{ + const char *editor = git_editor(); + + if (!editor) + return error("Terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset"); + if (strcmp(editor, ":")) { size_t len = strlen(editor); int i = 0; diff --git a/var.c b/var.c index dacbaab..b502487 100644 --- a/var.c +++ b/var.c @@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ static const char var_usage[] = "git var [-l | <variable>]"; +static const char *editor(int flag) +{ + const char *pgm = git_editor(); + + if (!pgm && flag & IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME) + die("Terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset"); + + return pgm; +} + struct git_var { const char *name; const char *(*read)(int); @@ -15,14 +25,18 @@ struct git_var { static struct git_var git_vars[] = { { "GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT", git_committer_info }, { "GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT", git_author_info }, + { "GIT_EDITOR", editor }, { "", NULL }, }; static void list_vars(void) { struct git_var *ptr; + const char *val; + for (ptr = git_vars; ptr->read; ptr++) - printf("%s=%s\n", ptr->name, ptr->read(0)); + if ((val = ptr->read(0))) + printf("%s=%s\n", ptr->name, val); } static const char *read_var(const char *var) -- 1.6.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html