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| -rw-r--r-- | t/test-lib.sh | 16 |
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diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 7c2a8ba77d..d7ad13b955 100644 --- a/t/test-lib.sh +++ b/t/test-lib.sh @@ -160,6 +160,22 @@ die () { trap 'die' exit +# The semantics of the editor variables are that of invoking +# sh -c "$EDITOR \"$@\"" files ... +# +# If our trash directory contains shell metacharacters, they will be +# interpreted if we just set $EDITOR directly, so do a little dance with +# environment variables to work around this. +# +# In particular, quoting isn't enough, as the path may contain the same quote +# that we're using. +test_set_editor () { + FAKE_EDITOR="$1" + export FAKE_EDITOR + VISUAL='"$FAKE_EDITOR"' + export VISUAL +} + test_tick () { if test -z "${test_tick+set}" then |