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From: Randal L. Schwartz
Subject: Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 9:00 am

>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

Matthieu> C does not have tilde expansion or "eval", but it has "system()":

Matthieu> int main () {
Matthieu>         system("~/bin/scripts/moy-editor.sh foo.txt");
Matthieu> }

Matthieu> works as you'd expect.

And that's because it forks a /bin/sh to process that.  And your modern
/bin/sh apparently understands tilde expansion.  *that* wouldn't have worked
back when /bin/sh was really the bourne shell and not some cheap over-featured
(read "GNU") clone.

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EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 7:12 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, (Tue Aug 28, 7:37 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 7:44 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 7:52 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 7:58 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 8:03 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Randal L. Schwartz, (Tue Aug 28, 8:16 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 8:17 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 8:20 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Kyle Rose, (Tue Aug 28, 8:22 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 8:24 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 8:24 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 8:25 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 8:27 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 8:28 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Aug 28, 8:50 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Aug 28, 8:58 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Randal L. Schwartz, (Tue Aug 28, 9:00 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Aug 28, 9:11 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Alex Riesen, (Tue Aug 28, 10:47 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Kyle Rose, (Tue Aug 28, 10:52 am)