[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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