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Re: Bug: git-p4 edit_template() and P4EDITOR w/options

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 4, 2015, 22:34 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> The relevant part of git-p4 is this:
>
>         # invoke the editor
>         if os.environ.has_key("P4EDITOR") and (os.environ.get("P4EDITOR") != ""):
>             editor = os.environ.get("P4EDITOR")
>         else:
>             editor = read_pipe("git var GIT_EDITOR").strip()
>         system([editor, template_file])
>
> It grabs $EDITOR (or $GIT_EDITOR) and treats it as the path to the
> editor executable, without letting shell to split that into words at
> whitespace boundaries, so that you can say things like
>
> 	EDITOR="/User/me/My Programs/nano"
>
> The way we spawn EDITOR in our core codepaths matches what git-p4
> does, too:
>
> 	const char *args[] = { editor, real_path(path), NULL };
> 	struct child_process p = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
> 	int ret, sig;
>
> 	p.argv = args;
> 	p.env = env;
> 	p.use_shell = 1;
> 	if (start_command(&p) < 0)
> 		return error("unable to start editor '%s'", editor);
> 	...
>
> So...
Well, I'll take that back.  I misread p.use_shell line.
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