On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 05:43:58PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 08:52:56PM +0100, Fabien COUTANT wrote: > > Le Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:48:57 -0500, Wayne Cuddy a écrit: > > [...] > > > It now makes the assumption that all editors accept '--' as the option > > > list terminator. Really quite annoying. > > > > Hi Wayne > > > > IIRC it's a common usage with POSIX utilities, and supported by getopt(3) > > and getopt(1). > > > > In that precise case it allows passing strange file names such as those > > starting with '-' or '--' without prefixing them with <somepath>/ . > > > > Maybe it's the occasion to add it to vile rather than bugging sudo ? > > (though they may deserve it :-)) > > > > -- > > Cordialement, > > Fabien COUTANT. > > Hi Fabian, > > Understood, I should have mentioned that I'm familiar with it's use in > other utilities and I'm not particularly bothered by it. > > I guess my main gripe with sudo is that it was added but I see no > mention of it in the change log nor a way to disable it in case the called > editor does not provide handling for it. Surely vile is not the only > editor that can't handle it at the moment. > > That being said... I vote for adding it to vile as well if Tom agrees.
sure (I noticed this recently, but hadn't realized it was a recent change to visudo). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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