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From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: edit-command-line with spaces in EDITOR
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:31:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <237967ef0812161431y39d9b150o66406869d90b1c94@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081216214517.GA14544@scru.org>

2008/12/16 Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 06:07:50PM +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> I'm not convinced this is a good idea. If the binary or path to it
>> contains a space, you just broke it. It's probably better to just tell
>> people to make a short wrapper script. Also, if some apps parse spaces
>> in EDITOR and others don't, then you effectively have to _both_ keep
>> the path+binary space-free and not give any arguments. That seems
>> suboptimal. FWIW git interprets spaces in EDITOR but... AFAIK it has
>> always been the name of a binary and nothing more.
>
> Are you aware of any applications which _do not_ split EDITOR on spaces
> or is this all theoretical?

sudo, http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=getenv.*EDITOR+show:PzdGoZtAqeI:G9wXYPpcdgc:AfyqUXSwU3U&sa=N&cd=9&ct=rc&cs_p=ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/sudo-1.6.8p9.tar.gz&cs_f=sudo-1.6.8p9/visudo.c

tla, http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=getenv.*EDITOR+show:6rdpA64V62I:9dG97f3kZF0:vHcDzWcDvPI&sa=N&cd=11&ct=rc&cs_p=http://freshmeat.net/redir/archrevctl/41124/url_tgz/tla-1.3.5.tar.gz&cs_f=tla-1.3.5/src/tla/libarch/editor.c

(at this point i would like to note there are a sad number of programs
that do sprintf(cmd, "%s '%s'", editor, file); system(cmd);)

ironically emacs,
% ALTERNATE_EDITOR="ls" emacsclient =emacs
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
/usr/bin/emacs
% ALTERNATE_EDITOR="ls -l" emacsclient =emacs
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
emacsclient: error executing alternate editor "ls -l"

So far, i have only found lots of strange code and programs that do
not split EDITOR, I have yet to find one that does (except for git
which i already knew about). To be fair, some of the "strange code"
does split it, but they also split filenames and run arbitrary code so
I don't think those count.

pam_unix in osx (i think?),
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=getenv.*EDITOR+show:uJDRNZUL70A:waEx2HuwGy4:ADkvXgRqXEk&sa=N&cd=107&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/pam_modules-13.tar.gz&cs_f=pam_modules-13/pam_unix/pw_util.c

crontab in ditto,
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=getenv.*EDITOR+show:_00kONdzoCk:TrU12ZEvJTg:zznBZOnQrgA&sa=N&cd=111&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/cron-12.2.tar.gz&cs_f=cron-12.2/crontab/crontab.c

here's one that purposely calls system() to split on spaces in EDITOR,
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=getenv.*EDITOR+show:X1tmsVlC7-g:7ffgu2ZLT7E:8ZS2TlXP2Xs&sa=N&cd=120&ct=rc&cs_p=ftp://153.19.33.250/software/shadow/shadow-4.0.18.1.tar.bz2&cs_f=shadow-4.0.18.1/src/vipw.c

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-16 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-16 15:38 Clint Adams
2008-12-16 17:07 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-16 19:22   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-12-16 19:27   ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-16 20:51     ` Richard Hartmann
2008-12-16 21:45   ` Clint Adams
2008-12-16 22:31     ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2008-12-17 12:16       ` Romain Francoise
     [not found]         ` <237967ef0812170448n11bd34f8y2c98b6484c8c0024@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <87oczb9d1j.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com>
2008-12-17 13:17             ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-12-17 14:44         ` Greg Klanderman
2008-12-17  4:04     ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found] <mikachu@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 15:02 ` Completion lockup Mikael Magnusson
2008-02-06 15:07   ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-09 17:21   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-02-09 18:04     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-02-09 19:13       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-08-30 12:02 ` Who is sorting my completion results? Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-30 12:16   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-08-30 12:39     ` Mikael Magnusson
     [not found] ` <237967ef0902140622s7389d2c8h5a0c786dcf207422@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <200902141801.n1EI1E2l003603@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
     [not found]     ` <237967ef0902141019t30118690m30116c9413015d96@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <090214111316.ZM15188@torch.brasslantern.com>
     [not found]         ` <237967ef0902141141y609b61d3i154546f6f6886c65@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <090214133904.ZM15383@torch.brasslantern.com>
     [not found]             ` <20090216094632.30502fe9@news01>
2009-02-16  9:55               ` Problem with fake-files style and cd Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27  1:25                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27  4:41                   ` Bart Schaefer
2011-05-27  4:57                     ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27  5:36                       ` Bart Schaefer
2011-05-27 14:24                         ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27 14:39                           ` Peter Stephenson
2011-05-27 15:06                           ` Bart Schaefer
2011-05-27 15:16                             ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-05-27 15:44                               ` Bart Schaefer
2011-01-06 19:22 ` Infinite loop, can't reproduce with zsh -f Mikael Magnusson
2011-01-06 20:03   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-23 21:07 ` PATCH: Fix leaks of desthost in ztcp Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-23 21:53   ` Peter Stephenson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-04 21:53 Add completion suffix highlighting Mikael Magnusson
2009-12-04 22:00 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-12-05 19:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-12-05 19:36   ` Peter Stephenson
2009-12-05 19:49   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-12-05 20:11     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-10-30 16:10 zsh eats 100% CPU with completion in / Frank Terbeck
2009-10-30 21:14 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-30 21:25   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-30 21:33   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-31 20:00     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-10-31 22:43       ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-31 23:00         ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-01  1:50           ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-01 18:31             ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-01 19:33               ` Bart Schaefer
2009-11-01 21:12               ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-01 22:20                 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-02  0:57                   ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02  1:26                     ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02 16:38                       ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-02 20:58                         ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02 21:06                           ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-02 21:30                             ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-11-03 10:10                               ` Peter Stephenson
2009-11-03 11:24                                 ` Frank Terbeck
2009-11-02 10:06                     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-10-30 21:29 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2009-10-30 23:01   ` Frank Terbeck
2009-10-30 23:15     ` Frank Terbeck
     [not found] <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
2008-10-30 21:20 ` another bug: zsh_directory_name Oliver Kiddle
2008-10-30 21:26   ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-10-30 22:13     ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-30 23:44       ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-10-31  0:14       ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-10-31  9:44       ` Oliver Kiddle
2008-10-31  9:58         ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-30 22:16   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-31 11:10 ` PATCH: bug with hash builtin Oliver Kiddle
2008-10-31 21:07   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-04  0:52 Identify "active" region? Bart Schaefer
2008-05-04  7:16 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 12:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-04 12:33   ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 12:35     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 13:28       ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 18:05         ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-04 19:10           ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-05-04 16:38       ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-04 17:52         ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-13 16:54 PATCH: (large) initial support for combining characters in ZLE Peter Stephenson
2008-04-13 17:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-04-14  9:02   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-14 12:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-14 13:34 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-14 13:54   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-15 13:58     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-15 16:46       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-16  1:28         ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-16  8:47           ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-17  9:28             ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-09-22 18:16             ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-09-22 18:36               ` Peter Stephenson
2008-09-22 18:39                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-04-17 18:33 ` Jun T.
2008-04-18  9:40   ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-18 15:48     ` Jun T.
2008-04-18 16:05       ` Peter Stephenson
2008-04-19 15:04         ` Jun T.

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