On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
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> My co-worker is visually impaired, and he uses a custom emacs.  His
> EDITOR is set to something like "~/bin/xemacs -nw".  When git-commit
> runs, it complains:
> 
> % git-commit
> git-commit: line 582: ~/bin/xemacs -nw: No such file or directory
> 
> So, I fiddled with the following line in git-commit:
> 
>         ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG"

I don't see how this line could trigger an error like the one you get.

Your error message doesn't tell you it doesn't expand the tilde, it tells
you it uses the whole string ! It is looking for a "xemacs -nw" file under
$HOME/bin, which obviously doesn't exist.

Now, theorically, this should not happen unless you quote the whole
variable substitution thing.

What is your co-worker's shell ?

Mike
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