From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:10:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g2oa0mvwyz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdoj-DLtFVY4b9nJs3WDJ4g=13Wkwr8J1aDWeufXGaR-Exg@mail.gmail.com> (Reuben Thomas's message of "Thu, 1 Dec 2016 15:31:18 +0000")
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?
> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-08 23:10 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2016-12-09 13:44 ` Reuben Thomas
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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