https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327982
Bug ID: 327982 Summary: external editor is too hard to configure Classification: Unclassified Product: kmail2 Version: 4.11.3 Platform: Fedora RPMs OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: config dialog Assignee: kdepim-bugs@kde.org Reporter: eric.bru...@lps.ens.fr I am trying to configure an external editor for kmail, but the way the command line is parsed makes things overly difficult. What I found out, by trials and errors: I one enters xterm -fa 'Liberation Mono' ... it will not work because the program runs with argv[1]="-fa"; argv[2]="'Liberation"; argv[3]="Mono'" One should use xterm -fa "Liberation Mono" instead. Not intuitive. I didn't find a way to specify a line number for the vim family of editors. The command line argument is vim +42 foobar the following will also work in a shell vim "+ 42" foobar; vim '+ 42' foobar; vim +\ 42 foobar There is no way to make kmail generate one of those: vim +%l %f fails because some space is put between variable interpolations and one finally gets argv[1]="+" argv[2]="42". vim '+%l' %f fails because it gives argv[1]="'+" and argv[2]="42'". vim "+%l" %f fails because variables are not interpolated between double quotes: it gives argv[1]="+%l". This is really annoying and contradictory to what one might expect. Am I supposed to write a shell wrapper to send an external editor ? At some point, kmail should stop trying to parse the string too much. It should just replace %l %f and %w by their values, whereever they appear, and then simply call system() to interpolate the arguments, interpret the quotes, etc. It would be much less unexpected! (By the way, why not add a %c to specify a column number ?) Reproducible: Always -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kdepim-bugs mailing list Kdepim-bugs@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-bugs