Re: PATCH: edit-command-line with spaces in EDITOR

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/12/16 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/12/16 Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>:
>> Apparently people want to set EDITOR to things like
>> "connect-emacs editor -t".
>
> I'm not convinced this is a good idea. If the binary or path to it
> contains a space, you just broke it. It's probably better to just tell
> people to make a short wrapper script. Also, if some apps parse spaces
> in EDITOR and others don't, then you effectively have to _both_ keep
> the path+binary space-free and not give any arguments. That seems
> suboptimal. FWIW git interprets spaces in EDITOR but... AFAIK it has
> always been the name of a binary and nothing more.

I had a feeling I was forgetting something when I was typing that,
just realized what it was;
% EDITOR="connect-emacs editor -t"
% $EDITOR myfile
zsh: command not found: connect-emacs editor -t

I guess you can still type $=EDITOR though...

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Mikael Magnusson