On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, at 10:19 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> I didn't look at more than mailx, but the description there makes it clear
> that $EDITOR needs to expand to a command name. `more' has similar wording
> ("The name of the editor shall be taken from the environment variable
> EDITOR.") and talk
On 6/9/22 11:57 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022, at 8:37 PM, Luciano wrote:
By the way, git seems to interpret the EDITOR variable in a way
consistent with C-x C-e, while the pass program as I said seems to just
execute $EDITOR, like fc. I wonder if POSIX leaves room for
interp
On 6/9/22 8:37 PM, Luciano wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:49:52PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
You could create a wrapper script, put it in your $HOME/bin/ directory
(and make sure that's in PATH), and then set EDITOR to that wrapper.
That should be much more reliable, especially if other pr
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022, at 8:37 PM, Luciano wrote:
> By the way, git seems to interpret the EDITOR variable in a way
> consistent with C-x C-e, while the pass program as I said seems to just
> execute $EDITOR, like fc. I wonder if POSIX leaves room for
> interpretation here.
It does, insofar as it
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:49:52PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>You could create a wrapper script, put it in your $HOME/bin/ directory
>(and make sure that's in PATH), and then set EDITOR to that wrapper.
>That should be much more reliable, especially if other programs also
>use $EDITOR (which t
On 6/8/22 5:06 PM, Luciano wrote:
Hi!
I had the terrible idea to set my EDITOR variable to something too
complex. I had to pass some options with whitespace to vim, so i decided
to use `eval`. I managed to get something working, but the way the
EDITOR variable is interpreted isn't consistent
to p
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 06:06:51PM -0300, Luciano wrote:
> I had the terrible idea to set my EDITOR variable to something too
> complex. I had to pass some options with whitespace to vim, so i decided
> to use `eval`. [...]
You could create a wrapper script, put it in your $HOME/bin/ directory
(an
Hi!
I had the terrible idea to set my EDITOR variable to something too
complex. I had to pass some options with whitespace to vim, so i decided
to use `eval`. I managed to get something working, but the way the
EDITOR variable is interpreted isn't consistent
to provide an example, if one sets EDIT
