editor can't handle args in editor environment variables

[carlcosmos]

common case is our users will have EDITOR set to gvim -f which causes editor to crash.

[fmoo]

Kind of an old issue. There's a PR for it (#15), but I wasn't sure if it would break editors with whitespace in their names.

[carlcosmos]

Ah - I didn't catch that issue in advance. Feel free to dupe. Our workaround is to just parse the EDITOR variable before invoking editor. In particular we have a lot of users doing things like 'gvim -f' for a blocking gvim for their other uses cases.

Would it suffice to look for things that look like an optparse/argparse style option? like the pattern " -" or " --" (a space followed by dashes followed by chars) ?

Thanks for responding,

-carl

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 1:10 AM Peter Ruibal @.***> wrote:

Kind of an old issue. There's a PR for it (#15 https://github.com/fmoo/python-editor/pull/15), but I wasn't sure if it would break editors with whitespace in their names.

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