Jan Braun wrote: > Also, in the current proposal, the argument list of $MAILER necessarily > starts with "mailto:";. If the programs being put in MAILER check that > and fail on unrecognized arguments, we have a way to introduce, up- and > downward-compatibly [...]
Ok, I'm convinced. Still in an ideal world there would be a separate XMAILER and MAILER but, well, we're not in an ideal world. :) > *) My approach prefers XDG_MAILER over the desktop environment's idea of > a mailer. I feel that's the proper priority and important to get right. Yes. > *) Quoting, see above. There are two precedents to compare. BROWSER does some wacko thing (actually, I never understood it and I fear different programs have different behavior with shell metacharacters). iirc EDITOR and VISUAL traditionally are passed to the shell somewhat like this: sh -c "$EDITOR \"\$1\"" - filename or within a shell: set -- filename eval "$EDITOR" '"$1"' I wouldn't mind just forbidding shell metacharacters[*] if you prefer that. [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_02 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
