Re: Interpreting EDITOR/VISUAL environment variables.

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Aug 1, 2007, 18:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20070801185042.GB30277@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4y75gcy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:12:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> We recently normalized the script callers not to splice at all
> (the scripts were hand-rolling "the VISUAL or EDITOR or vi" and
> slightly differently).  It obviously has negative (i.e. setting
> EDITOR to "emacsclient --alternate-editor vi" does not work) as
> well as positive side (i.e. "/home/dak/My Programs/editor" would
> work).

And, indeed, --alternate-editor could be supplemented by another envvar to be able to work in our situation. Maybe the various emacsen vendors would be willing to integrate such a patch ?

Best regards,

-- 
Yann