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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2009-11-11 17:56:07 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-11-13 12:15:28 -0800
commitd33738d7d3ed42a956c74d0125eb2b3abda451b7 (patch)
tree414fdfcc1767201d02b06169857ba3db182ccebf /editor.c
parenteab58f1e8e5ef86b5075ce6dfcd6d3f1b3b888b3 (diff)
downloadgit-d33738d7d3ed42a956c74d0125eb2b3abda451b7.tar.gz
Do not use VISUAL editor on dumb terminals
Refuse to use $VISUAL and fall back to $EDITOR if TERM is unset or set to "dumb". Traditionally, VISUAL is set to a screen editor and EDITOR to a line-based editor, which should be more useful in that situation. vim, for example, is happy to assume a terminal supports ANSI sequences even if TERM is dumb (e.g., when running from a text editor like Acme). git already refuses to fall back to vi on a dumb terminal if GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, VISUAL, and EDITOR are unset, but without this patch, that check is suppressed by VISUAL=vi. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'editor.c')
-rw-r--r--editor.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/editor.c b/editor.c
index 941c0b2ab6..3f1375114c 100644
--- a/editor.c
+++ b/editor.c
@@ -4,19 +4,19 @@
int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *env)
{
- const char *editor, *terminal;
+ const char *editor = getenv("GIT_EDITOR");
+ const char *terminal = getenv("TERM");
+ int terminal_is_dumb = !terminal || !strcmp(terminal, "dumb");
- editor = getenv("GIT_EDITOR");
if (!editor && editor_program)
editor = editor_program;
- if (!editor)
+ if (!editor && !terminal_is_dumb)
editor = getenv("VISUAL");
if (!editor)
editor = getenv("EDITOR");
- terminal = getenv("TERM");
- if (!editor && (!terminal || !strcmp(terminal, "dumb")))
- return error("Terminal is dumb but no VISUAL nor EDITOR defined.");
+ if (!editor && terminal_is_dumb)
+ return error("terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset");
if (!editor)
editor = "vi";