Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@xxxxxx> wrote: > When setting the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variable, one might want > to hand over arguments (like e.g. for not backgrounding a GUI editor but > waiting for it to finish. This patch enables that posibility, before it > did look for a program with the content of the variable, including the > space as filename part. The change is in sync with regular behavior with > various other tools, git itself included. > > Signed-off-by: Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@xxxxxx> Hi Gerfried, I wanted to do something like this a few weeks ago, but generically enough to be used by other scripts (sh/perl/python/ruby/whatever...). I haven't had time to follow up on it (and decide on a command-name), but the thread starts here: http://mid.gmane.org/20090201025349.GA22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Eric Wong -- 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