From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 22:44:01 GMT Subject: Re: Bug: git-p4 edit_template() and P4EDITOR w/options Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Junio C Hamano writes: > Perhaps a single-liner patch like this would work? > > - system([editor, template_file]) > + system(["sh", "-c", editor, template_file]) Nah, scratch that. The list should be more like ["sh", "-c", "%s %s" % (editor, shlex.quote(template_file))] if your Python has shlex.quote, that is; it may be pipes.quote instead.