Provide a DEFAULT_EDITOR knob to allow setting the fallback
editor to use instead of vi (when VISUAL, EDITOR, and GIT_EDITOR
are unset). The value can be set at build time according to a
system’s policy. For example, on Debian systems, the default
editor should be the 'editor' command.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Unchanged.
Makefile | 17 +++++++++++++++++
editor.c | 6 +++++-
t/t7005-editor.sh | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 268aede..625866c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -200,6 +200,14 @@ all::
# memory allocators with the nedmalloc allocator written by Niall Douglas.
#
# Define NO_REGEX if you have no or inferior regex support in your C library.
+#
+# Define DEFAULT_EDITOR to a sensible editor command (defaults to "vi") if you
+# want to use something different. The value will be interpreted by the shell
+# if necessary when it is used. Examples:
+#
+# DEFAULT_EDITOR='~/bin/vi',
+# DEFAULT_EDITOR='$GIT_FALLBACK_EDITOR',
+# DEFAULT_EDITOR='"C:\Program Files\Vim\gvim.exe" --nofork'
GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE
@$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1363,6 +1371,15 @@ BASIC_CFLAGS += -DSHA1_HEADER='$(SHA1_HEADER_SQ)' \
$(COMPAT_CFLAGS)
LIB_OBJS += $(COMPAT_OBJS)
+# Quote for C
+
+ifdef DEFAULT_EDITOR
+DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ = "$(subst ",\",$(subst \,\\,$(DEFAULT_EDITOR)))"
+DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ))
+
+BASIC_CFLAGS += -DDEFAULT_EDITOR='$(DEFAULT_EDITOR_CQ_SQ)'
+endif
+
ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS)
ALL_LDFLAGS += $(BASIC_LDFLAGS)
diff --git a/editor.c b/editor.c
index 70618f1..615f575 100644
--- a/editor.c
+++ b/editor.c
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
#include "strbuf.h"
#include "run-command.h"
+#ifndef DEFAULT_EDITOR
+#define DEFAULT_EDITOR "vi"
+#endif
+
const char *git_editor(void)
{
const char *editor = getenv("GIT_EDITOR");
@@ -19,7 +23,7 @@ const char *git_editor(void)
return NULL;
if (!editor)
- editor = "vi";
+ editor = DEFAULT_EDITOR;
return editor;
}
diff --git a/t/t7005-editor.sh b/t/t7005-editor.sh
index a95fe19..5257f4d 100755
--- a/t/t7005-editor.sh
+++ b/t/t7005-editor.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,21 @@ test_description='GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, and stuff'
. ./test-lib.sh
-for i in GIT_EDITOR core_editor EDITOR VISUAL vi
+unset EDITOR VISUAL GIT_EDITOR
+
+test_expect_success 'determine default editor' '
+
+ vi=$(TERM=vt100 git var GIT_EDITOR) &&
+ test -n "$vi"
+
+'
+
+if ! expr "$vi" : '^[a-z]*$' >/dev/null
+then
+ vi=
+fi
+
+for i in GIT_EDITOR core_editor EDITOR VISUAL $vi
do
cat >e-$i.sh <<-EOF
#!$SHELL_PATH
@@ -12,19 +26,18 @@ do
EOF
chmod +x e-$i.sh
done
-unset vi
-mv e-vi.sh vi
-unset EDITOR VISUAL GIT_EDITOR
+
+if ! test -z "$vi"
+then
+ mv e-$vi.sh $vi
+fi
test_expect_success setup '
- msg="Hand edited" &&
+ msg="Hand-edited" &&
+ test_commit "$msg" &&
echo "$msg" >expect &&
- git add vi &&
- test_tick &&
- git commit -m "$msg" &&
- git show -s --pretty=oneline |
- sed -e "s/^[0-9a-f]* //" >actual &&
+ git show -s --format=%s > actual &&
diff actual expect
'
@@ -54,7 +67,7 @@ test_expect_success 'dumb should prefer EDITOR to VISUAL' '
TERM=vt100
export TERM
-for i in vi EDITOR VISUAL core_editor GIT_EDITOR
+for i in $vi EDITOR VISUAL core_editor GIT_EDITOR
do
echo "Edited by $i" >expect
unset EDITOR VISUAL GIT_EDITOR
@@ -78,7 +91,7 @@ done
unset EDITOR VISUAL GIT_EDITOR
git config --unset-all core.editor
-for i in vi EDITOR VISUAL core_editor GIT_EDITOR
+for i in $vi EDITOR VISUAL core_editor GIT_EDITOR
do
echo "Edited by $i" >expect
case "$i" in
--
1.6.5.2
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