From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:10:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Interpreting EDITOR/VISUAL environment variables.
Message-ID: <20070802101056.GA31182@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <85r6mnrs1z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> a) Using system and shell-quoting the filename.  Advantage: one can
> set EDITOR='"/home/dak/My Programs/editor"' and have it work.
> Disadvantage: shell-quoting a file name seems shell- and
> system-dependent.

What about this instead of quoting the argument?

    sh -c '$EDITOR "$1" "$2"' editor +5 /path/to/file

(i.e. for C execvp("/bin/sh", "-c", "$EDITOR \"$1\" \"$2\"", "editor",
    "+5", "/path/to/file"))