Re: $EDITOR and “guix edit”

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Am Mittwoch, dem 22.11.2023 um 19:21 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Hello,
> 
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, dem 16.11.2023 um 16:25 +0100 schrieb Ludovic
> > Courtès:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > It’d be nice to support these as well.  However, how do we know
> > > we’re
> > > dealing with kate or VSCode?  By checking the basename of
> > > $EDITOR?
> > > Kinda ugly and brittle, but probably better than nothing.
> > Maybe we can check for a guix_editor shell function and invoke that
> > rather than EDITOR if defined?
> 
> ‘guix edit’ cannot “invoke” a shell function though.
> 
> I was thinking of something more gross, like checking whether the
> basename of $EDITOR is ‘kate’ or ‘vscode’ and in that case do
> whatever is relevant for those editors.
> 
> WDYT?
I see your gross "checking whether the basename of $EDITOR is ‘kate’…"
and I raise my "use $GUIX_EDITOR which uses substring replacements for
${LINE} and ${FILE} implemented in pure Guile code"

Cheers