Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit

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Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Now, theorically, this should not happen unless you quote the whole
> variable substitution thing.
>
> What is your co-worker's shell ?

In any case, should be addressed with commit
08874658b450600e72bb7cb0d0747c1ec4b0bfe1 from the first of August.

-- 
David Kastrup

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