From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:50:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Interpreting EDITOR/VISUAL environment variables.
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:
> 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