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

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Thu Sep 13 01:02:35 CEST 2007


     > ${VISUAL:-${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 :).


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