David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Is that how other programs mentioned in the thread handle $EDITOR? > > If you are lucky. There is also the possibility that they just split > on spaces without a way of quoting (see above), and in that case path > names with spaces in them become completely impossible. > > I am not going to test all those applications _again_: the current > code allows specifying commands with spaces in their names (by > quoting) as well as commands with arguments, and both in an obvious > manner. This is strictly better than being only able to do one or the > other. > > I don't think you should revert the patch based on quite unspecific > whining of someone who chose not to read the original discussion, but > of course it is your call to make. Oh, I think you misunderstood me. I was saying > > GIT_EDITOR="'/home/my programs/emacs' -nw" > is a _good_ compromise. It just was that it would make it even _better_ compromise if we can demonstrate that the above setting would work equally well with other programs. - 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
