Feature Requests item #3594756, was opened at 2012-12-11 03:35
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>Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Sebastian Freundt (hroptatyr)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: EDITOR won't start if it contains arguments
Initial Comment:
Steps to reproduce:
- set EDITOR to some command with argument, e.g. "vim -R"
- enter the linebased interface and select a line
=>
Cannot exec vim -R: No such file or directory
Press the RETURN key to continue:
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>Comment By: Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker)
Date: 2012-12-11 14:21
Message:
$EDITOR is supposed to be the name of a program, not an arbitrary piece of
command line. The latter would be unwise for safety reasons.
Nor is it really necessary to do this, so this is no bug. You can just as
well put a little shell script onto your path and point $EDITOR to that,
instead.
Oh, and this is actually a duplicate of
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1007390&group_id=4664&atid=304664
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