[darcs-devel] Re: the breakCommand quoting issue...

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Mon Jan 29 07:09:20 PST 2007


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:27:00AM +0100, Benedikt Schmidt wrote:
> Benedikt Schmidt <beschmi at cloaked.de> writes:
> > David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:
> >> DARCS_EDITOR=emacs --eval "(setq make-backup-files nil)"
> [...]
> > 2. exec_interactive without breaking up the user command: doesn't handle
> >    DARCS_EDITOR="emacs -nw" since there is no file called "emacs -nw" in
> >    the PATH
> >
> > 3. exec_interactive with breakCommand: doesn't handle spaces in paths
> >    in the command path, doesn't handle quoting
> 
> This definition doesn't work with either of these, perhaps the
> emacs --eval ... failed and the fallback editor got invoked (emacs without
> any options)?

Right, that's presumably what happened.
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