On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:52:58PM CEST, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My co-worker is visually impaired, and he uses a custom emacs. His
> > EDITOR is set to something like "~/bin/xemacs -nw". When git-commit
> > runs, it complains:
> >
> > % git-commit
> > git-commit: line 582: ~/bin/xemacs -nw: No such file or directory
> >
> > So, I fiddled with the following line in git-commit:
> >
> > ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG"
>
> I don't see how this line could trigger an error like the one you get.
>
> Your error message doesn't tell you it doesn't expand the tilde, it tells
> you it uses the whole string ! It is looking for a "xemacs -nw" file under
> $HOME/bin, which obviously doesn't exist.
>
> Now, theorically, this should not happen unless you quote the whole
> variable substitution thing.
$ (x='a b'; $x)
bash: a: command not found
$ (x='~/a b'; $x)
bash: ~/a: No such file or directory
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