Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> I'm not sure where quoted spaces and such are handled very much
> differently. How would you quote it that wouldn't make tons of programs
> fail? EDITOR='"/my space path/prog"' doesn't work in most applications
> because they wouldn't strip the embedded quotes, neither does
> EDITOR='/my\ space\ path/prog' work. EDITOR='/my space path/prog' might
> work in some (current git-svn) but not in all.
I have EDITOR='emacs -nw' and it works for git, svn and hg. (Which
are roughly the ones I care about.)
> I haven't looked into how git does it directly, but it offers that
> posibility:
> EDITOR="vim -c 'syn off'" git commit -a
>
> I wasn't able to figure out any way to use a space-embedded filename in
> EDITOR for git - so why should git-svn behave differently here? But you
> are right, this very example shows clearly that my approach is
> incomplete because it can't handle the 'syn off' part.
launch_editor (in editor.c) does roughly the following in Perl:
# set $editor according to config/variables
my @editor = ($editor);
if ($editor =~ /["$\t ]/) {
@editor = ('sh', '-c', $editor . ' "$@"', $editor);
}
system(@editor, @rest_of_args);
I'm not a Perl expert but that's my current educated guess of what it
translates to ;-)
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Thomas Rast
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