[tex-live] Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDIT default doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Tue Jul 24 17:47:22 CEST 2007


    TEXEDIT = ${EDITOR:-vi} +%d "%s"
    work and respect the EDITOR environment variable?

Well, texmfmp.c ends up calling system(3) on the string, so it would
seem so, but when I actually tried it, it didn't seem to work.  I dunno.


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