From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:54:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC/WIP/POC] git-gui: grep prototype
Message-ID: <20101114215442.GC16413@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1289770869-11665-1-git-send-email-bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>

Bert Wesarg wrote:

> There is one feature that the upstream git gui lacks[1]: This grep gui can start
> the git editor on every line by clicking with button 2 in the result area. The
> git editor will than be started with the environment variable FILENAME and
> LINENUMBER set but no argument given. This makes it possible to distinguish
> between normal, blocking edit operation (like git commit) from this
> open-and-forget type of operation.

This sounds like an excellent sort of thing to add to git grep -O, too
(which currently has very limited support for editors' line number
features).  But what will it do with typical non-git-specific setups
like

	VISUAL=vim

or

	EDITOR="gvim --nofork"

?

Do existing editors support LINENUMBER in the environment?