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Re: export EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a emacs" doesn’t work
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: export EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a emacs" doesn’t work |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Feb 2021 08:19:45 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:36:09AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
> export EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a emacs"
You cannot assume that all programs which use $EDITOR will split it
into words for you.
What you should do instead is write a two-line script, put it in a
directory in your PATH, and set EDITOR to that script.
#!/bin/sh
exec emacsclient -c -a emacs "$@" # or ${1+"$@"} if you prefer