On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 16:52:58 (+0200) Mike Hommey writes:
>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.
Yes, obviously.
>Now, theorically, this should not happen unless you quote the whole
>variable substitution thing.
As I said, EDITOR is set to "~/bin/xemacs -nw", that is, he did
something like this:
% EDITOR="~/bin/xemacs -nw"
>What is your co-worker's shell ?
zsh, but I use bash and it failed for me as well.
Bill
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