On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 08:16:27 (-0700) Randal L. Schwartz writes: >>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >Bill> Of course, and one could use a full path also, but tilde is a >Bill> perfectly valid replacement for $HOME, > >Only to a shell. The kernel has no clue about it. I'd even say "only >to *some* shells" as well, but most modern shells now understand it. Well it is certainly valid to a user to set their EDITOR in that way, both in bash and zsh, so "only to a shell" is false, not even considering that he works with this every day with plenty of other tools, and has not seen a problem with them. I do notice that cvs pukes on this, however: % cd bin % ln -s /usr/bin/vim vingo % cd ~/testo % EDITOR="~/bin/vingo -C" % cvs commit cvs commit: cannot exec ~/bin/vingo: No such file or directory cvs commit: warning: editor session failed >Bill> and I think git should support >Bill> it, and not force the user to work around it. > >The eval solution is wrong on multiple levels. Fine with me: that's why I brought it up and asked the question. How would you propose to fix it? If git-commit were rewritten in C, I can see an argument "C does not understand tilde", but I can't see this as a valid argument for not supporting it. Bill - 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
