Re: [bug-idutils] eid bug

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello Bruno,

sorry for the late response: I still do not have an
own permanent inet access in my new home.

--- Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote: 

> Hi,
> 
> I have the EDITOR variable set:
> $ echo "$EDITOR"
> emacs -nw

same (well, similar) here.

> and now when I use the "eid" command on a clisp
> source tree, I get
> 
> $ eid lispbibl
> lispbibl       build/genclisph.c utils/txt2c.c
> doc/extend.txt
> edit? [y1-9^S/nq] y
> y
> lid: can't exec `emacs -nw': Datei oder Verzeichnis
> nicht gefunden
> [...] 
> 
> The "eid" command should support EDITOR="emacs -nw"
> as well.

I agree. I was surprised to see this was not already
supported.
What I have in my setup is EDITOR="e"
and e is a shell script that invokes emacs -nw $*
That's why I did not see this problem before; you
could use this as a workaround before the thing is
fixed in idutils.

> There are two possible implementations:
>   - parse the value of $EDITOR, like a shell would
> do, and use the exec()
>     system call,

This is how I would proceed.
However, I am still not really active yet, so you
might have to wait for a little while.

>   - construct a shell command line from $EDITOR and
> the file names (using
>     proper quoting for spaces, backslashes or quotes
> in the file names),
>     and execute it using system().
> Bruno
> 

Bye,

Claudio


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