[tex-live] Bug#433455: Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDITdefault doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

[Reinhard Kotucha]

David Kastrup writes:
 > Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> writes:
 > 
 > > karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:
 > >
 > >>     +#ifdef  WIN32
 > >>     +#define EDITOR "emacs +%d \"%s\""
 > >>     +#else
 > >>      #define EDITOR "vi +%d '%s'"
 > >>     +#endif
 > >>
 > >> Thanks, I installed that change.
 > >
 > > Earlier, Akira suggested to change MPEDIT and MFEDIT, too.  What
 > > about that?
 > 
 > Actually, it would make more sense to change all those to the
 > equivalent of
 > 
 > ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-emacs-or-via-according-to-religion}}  +%d \"%s\"
 > 
 > namely: if there is a VISUAL or EDITOR variable set already, it does
 > not make sense not to make use of it.

Even if there is a good reason to over-ride VISUAL and EDITOR at all,
it doesn't make much sense to have three variables, TEXEDIT, MPEDIT,
and MFEDIT.  It's quite unlikely that someone uses Emacs to edit
metafont files, vi to edit metapost files, and Microsoft's flagship
Wordpad to edit tex files.

Doesn't it make more sense if tex, metapost, and metafont look out for
TEXEDIT only?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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