Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch

> Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > If the user's configured editor is emacsclient, the editor
> > will fail to launch if emacs is not running and the git
> > command that tried to lanuch the editor will abort. For most
> > commands, all you have to do is to start emacs and repeat
> > the command.
> >
> > The "git rebase -i" command, however, aborts without cleaning
> > the "$GIT_DIR/rebase-merge" directory if it fails to launch the
> > editor, so you'll need to do "git rebase --abort" before
> > repeating the rebase command.
> >
> > Change "git rebase -i" to terminate using "die_abort" (instead of
> > with "die") if the initial launch of the editor fails.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
> 
> Two questions:
> 
>  - Is emacsclient the _only_ editor that can exit with non-zero status to
>    signal an error condition "the user invoked me to edit an existing
>    file, but I ended up not letting the user edit it"?