[David Dyer-Bennet] > >> I suppose setting VISUAL="\"/path with spaces/to/editor/binary\"" is the > >> easiest solution --- it requires no code changes so it will work with > >> any svn binary out there. > > > > Yes, I think that's the best solution. > > And, in any case, VISUAL is a public interface, and I wonder how many > other applications would break if I put that kind of thing into > VISUAL.
A couple of random tests: - vipw, vigr work - visudo does not I seem to recall the same question coming up about 'man' and 'PAGER' some years ago. At least the Debian version uses system() and interprets PAGER='"/with spaces/pager" -with -args' correctly. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
