Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> a) Using system and shell-quoting the filename. Advantage: one can
>> set EDITOR='"/home/dak/My Programs/editor"' and have it work.
>> Disadvantage: shell-quoting a file name seems shell- and
>> system-dependent.
Actually I was talking C here, and the editor is never called from C
in git but rather from the shell. So this problem is a non-problem
for us.
> What about this instead of quoting the argument?
>
> sh -c '$EDITOR "$1" "$2"' editor +5 /path/to/file
>
> (i.e. for C execvp("/bin/sh", "-c", "$EDITOR \"$1\" \"$2\"", "editor",
> "+5", "/path/to/file"))
It suffers from the fault that it does not work as far as I can see.
-c does not set the positional parameters.
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David Kastrup
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