> As I said, EDITOR is set to "~/bin/xemacs -nw", that is, he did
quoted text
> something like this:
>
> % EDITOR="~/bin/xemacs -nw"
>   
It's not clear to me how this ever would have worked.  Programs *can*
execute $EDITOR with system(3), but it's possible they could execute it
with exec, in which case the binary "~/bin/xemacs -nw" definitely would
not be found.

The right solution to this IMO is to do both of the following:

(1) Create a shell script ~/bin/xemacs-nox that contains

#! /bin/bash
xemacs -nw "$@"

(2) Set the editor to

EDITOR=~/bin/xemacs-nox

Note the distinct LACK of double quotes around the value, which will
result in the shell expanding the ~ before assigning the value to $EDITOR.

Kyle

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