On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:12:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > We recently normalized the script callers not to splice at all > (the scripts were hand-rolling "the VISUAL or EDITOR or vi" and > slightly differently). It obviously has negative (i.e. setting > EDITOR to "emacsclient --alternate-editor vi" does not work) as > well as positive side (i.e. "/home/dak/My Programs/editor" would > work). And, indeed, --alternate-editor could be supplemented by another envvar to be able to work in our situation. Maybe the various emacsen vendors would be willing to integrate such a patch ? Best regards, -- Yann - 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