[tex-live] Bug#433455: Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDITdefault doesn't cope with spaces in filenames
Taco Hoekwater
taco at elvenkind.com
Thu Sep 13 08:34:09 CEST 2007
Karl Berry wrote:
> > ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-emacs-or-via-according-to-religion}} +%d \"%s\"
>
> Good point, thanks David.
>
> Doesn't it make more sense if tex, metapost, and metafont look out for
> TEXEDIT only?
>
> They could fall back to TEXEDIT, but as always I am leery of simply
> removing long-existing functionality. Although admittedly this is
> pretty obscure. Patches welcome :).
I don't want mpost to fallback to a variable called TEXEDIT. If mpost
is run in combination with troff labels, that would be really weird.
(simply EDITOR would be fine by me)
Best wishes,
Taco
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