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| author | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2015-11-21 14:37:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2015-12-06 17:23:21 +0100 |
| commit | b16dbd1311c9bd1346dcf0d490f25455e12b04cf (patch) | |
| tree | afacc29802629bf9a0f61ee8675fd78ba59f9360 /guix/scripts/edit.scm | |
| parent | 2f52ad7413aabecb7ef7b210d6d958b8aface9d4 (diff) | |
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edit: Allow command line arguments in $VISUAL and $EDITOR.
* guix/scripts/edit.scm (guix-edit): Fix the assumption that %editor is
a one word command.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix/scripts/edit.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/edit.scm | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/edit.scm b/guix/scripts/edit.scm index 73a5bb78d2..660bd57985 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/edit.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/edit.scm @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU ;;; Copyright © 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +;;; Copyright © 2015 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -83,8 +84,11 @@ line." (catch 'system-error (lambda () - (apply execlp (%editor) (%editor) - (append-map package->location-specification packages))) + (let ((file-names (append-map package->location-specification + packages))) + ;; Use `system' instead of `exec' in order to sanely handle + ;; possible command line arguments in %EDITOR. + (exit (system (string-join (cons (%editor) file-names)))))) (lambda args (let ((errno (system-error-errno args))) (leave (_ "failed to launch '~a': ~a~%") |