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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	"Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 07:00:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160801070037.GA18261@starla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160801014303.x5j3dqumcmrkyc76@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 01:05:56AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > +		while (*cp && *cp == ' ')
> > +			cp++;
> 
> So it looks like this function splits on spaces but doesn't provide any
> escaping mechanism.  Is there any case in which we want to accept
> environment variables containing whitespace?  I ask this as someone that
> has EDITOR set to "gvim -f" on occasion and seeing how tools sometimes
> handle that poorly.

Yes, it's only split on spaces right now.  While I don't think
there's any current case where spaces would be useful/desirable;
I suppose a 3rd patch in this series could add support for using
split_cmdline (from alias.c)...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-01  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-01  1:05 [PATCH 0/2] add PAGER_ENV to build and core.pagerEnv to config Eric Wong
2016-08-01  1:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build Eric Wong
2016-08-01  1:43   ` brian m. carlson
2016-08-01  7:00     ` Eric Wong [this message]
2016-08-01  8:57       ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-01 10:40         ` brian m. carlson
2016-08-01 17:24     ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 18:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-01 17:46   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-01 17:52     ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 18:01       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-01 18:07         ` Jeff King
2016-08-01  1:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] pager: implement core.pagerEnv in config Eric Wong
2016-08-01 17:28   ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 21:49 ` [PATCH 0/1 v2] add PAGER_ENV to build Eric Wong
2016-08-01 21:49   ` [PATCH 1/1 v2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build Eric Wong
2016-08-01 23:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-01 23:46       ` Jeff King
2016-08-02 21:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-01 23:56       ` Eric Wong
2016-08-02 21:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 16:19     ` Jeff King
2016-08-03 20:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 21:08         ` Eric Wong
2016-08-03 21:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04  3:43             ` [PATCH v3] " Eric Wong
2016-08-04  5:34               ` Jeff King
2016-08-04 11:34                 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-04 17:53                   ` Jeff King
2016-08-04 11:40               ` [PATCH v4] " Eric Wong
2016-08-03 21:09         ` [PATCH 1/1 v2] " Jeff King
2016-08-01 21:59   ` [PATCH 0/1 v2] add PAGER_ENV to build Jeff King

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