From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: 9051@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9051: alternate editor does not allow program with arguments
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:37:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310380634.22822.6.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com> (raw)
I set
ALTERNATE_EDITOR='nano -t'
but that fails when it is being invoked:
emacsclient test.c
emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
emacsclient: error executing alternate editor "nano -t"
(Side issue: It might be nice to append strerror() to that error
message.)
The problem is that emacsclient interprets the alternate editor setting
as an executable name rather than a shell command. This is in contrast
with the usual handling of the EDITOR environment variable, which is not
rarely set to values such as
EDITOR='nano -t'
EDITOR='emacsclient -t'
EDITOR='emacs -nw'
It would be very convenient and useful if the ALTERNATE_EDITOR
environment variable had the same behavior as the EDITOR variable in
that regard.
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