Re: psql \e broken again

From: Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD [mailto:ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at]
>
> I am not sure the test is valid, since %EDITOR% was used on
> the command line,
> which does it's own magic on quotes. Is there a command that
> would use the
> envvar EDITOR without putting it on the commandline ?
>
> We are talking about directly using the envvar from inside
> the program, no?
>

I wasn't sure either, but a quick trudge through my Windows-installed
software that has been ported from *nix didn't show any programs that
attempted to preserve that aspect of their behavior. CVSNT at least
attempted to invoke an external editor, so I tested with that.

I like Kevin Brown's suggestion of writing out a temporary .txt file and
'executing' it. It will follow the principle of least suprise for Windows
users. And it is suprisingly easy to wait for a child process with the NT
API. WaitForSingleObjectEx() ( http://tinyurl.com/5d4tj ) will wait with a
timeout, so the caller can handle other messages or update counters as
needed. ( We usually timeout every 1000ms and repeat the call until it
returns a non-timeout status. )