Re: psql \e broken again

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql \e broken again
Date: 2004-11-15 15:54:01
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA40184D229@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> We could maybe compromise with (again, for Windows only) a policy like
> "double-quote unless the value already contains at least one
> double-quote". This should work conveniently for everybody except the
> user who wants EDITOR='gvim.exe -y' on Windows; he'll have to add
> some useless-looking double quotes a la EDITOR='"gvim.exe" -y'.

Single quotes don't work on Windows (tried with %EDITOR% x.txt). I think we
should not worry too much since the user could use the "good old"
EDITOR=C:/PROGRA~1/vim/vim63/gvim.exe -y syntax on win if all else fails.

Andreas

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