In particular, this function correctly handles cases where the pwd contains
spaces, quotes, and other troublesome metacharacters.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
t/test-lib.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 7c2a8ba..d7ad13b 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -160,6 +160,22 @@ die () {
trap 'die' exit
+# The semantics of the editor variables are that of invoking
+# sh -c "$EDITOR \"$@\"" files ...
+#
+# If our trash directory contains shell metacharacters, they will be
+# interpreted if we just set $EDITOR directly, so do a little dance with
+# environment variables to work around this.
+#
+# In particular, quoting isn't enough, as the path may contain the same quote
+# that we're using.
+test_set_editor () {
+ FAKE_EDITOR="$1"
+ export FAKE_EDITOR
+ VISUAL='"$FAKE_EDITOR"'
+ export VISUAL
+}
+
test_tick () {
if test -z "${test_tick+set}"
then
--
1.5.5.1.128.g03a943
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