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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> For some reason, the construct
>
> 	sh -c "$0 \"$@\"" <editor> <file>
>
> does not pick up quotes in <editor> as expected.  So replace $0 with
> <editor>.

That's not "for some reason" but "I am asking shell to split", and

	sh -c '"$@"' ignoreme <editor> <files>...

would work better ;-).