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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH] edit: fix portability of editor invocation
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:53:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190610235346.64907-1-e@80x24.org> (raw)

The eval was unnecessary, and $0 can't be "--".
Tested with /bin/sh on FreeBSD 11.2
---
 script/public-inbox-edit | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/script/public-inbox-edit b/script/public-inbox-edit
index 16d7852..6a7d456 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-edit
+++ b/script/public-inbox-edit
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ foreach my $to_edit (values %$found) {
 
 	# run the editor, respecting spaces/quote
 retry_edit:
-	if (system(qw(sh -c), qq(eval "$editor" '"\$@"'), '--', $edit_fn)) {
+	if (system(qw(sh -c), $editor.' "$@"', $editor, $edit_fn)) {
 		if (!(-t STDIN) && !$opt->{force}) {
 			die "E: $editor failed: $?\n";
 		}
-- 
EW


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