From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 13:44:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdojqhxd2RXxbseLKCTOOGxNwDEkm=LOAzR+5Ce42cycuhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2oa0mvwyz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On 8 December 2016 at 23:10, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
> > The attached patch adds support to emacsclient for command-line options
> > when specifying the alternate editor, so that for example one can now
> say:
> >
> > ALTERNATE_EDITOR="emacs -Q -nw"
>
> Obvious question: what happens if eg one wants to specify an absolute
> file name for the alternate editor, and it contains spaces?
>
With my current implementation, that wouldn't work. I guess this would be
most likely to be a problem on Windows?
> implemented the feature when I found that it didn't work as I expected;
> > other similar environment variables with which users may be familiar,
> such
> > as EDITOR and VISUAL, already work like this.
>
> Do you have a citation for that being how eg EDITOR is intended to work?
>
No. The documentation in environ(7) just says:
EDITOR/VISUAL
The user's preferred utility to edit text files.
However, I can't find a program that interprets it as a literal filename.
For example, Debian's sensible-editor editor-wrapper script does exactly
what I just did. If I set
export EDITOR='"spacey editor"'
it complains it can't find a program called: "spacey
If I do
export EDITOR="emacsclient -c"
it works nicely. So it doesn't parse quotes specially. However, that's not
cross-platform.
I would not be averse to adding more sophisticated parsing (as I don't
think that would confuse users), but I'd rather not have to write a lot
more error-prone C to achieve that.
I had a look in gnulib but couldn't find anything. If there's some code I
could lift from bash or something, that'd be ideal.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-01 15:31 bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor Reuben Thomas
2016-12-02 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-02 15:31 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-08 23:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-09 13:44 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
2017-08-20 21:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-22 0:16 ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-22 0:23 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-22 0:52 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-23 22:59 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-27 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-28 10:15 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-29 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-29 15:49 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-29 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-29 22:29 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-30 21:01 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 21:02 ` bug#25082: Patch installed Reuben Thomas
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