On Monday 10 March 2008 22:37, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Monday 10 March 2008 21:42, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> For some reason, the construct > >> > >> sh -c "$0 \"$@\"" <editor> <file> > >> > >> does not pick up quotes in <editor> as expected. So replace $0 with > >> <editor>. > > > > No surprise. It must be > > > > sh -c '"$0" "$@"' <editor> <file> > > > > Note the extra quotes around $0. > > ... assuming that there is no dq, $var_reference and other nastiness in > <editor> ;-) They are not a problem; there isn't yet another level of evaluation. I just tried with an <editor> that goes by this name: f "$DISPLAY"b and I got the expected result, i.e. it was found and executed. -- Hannes -- 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