Re: psql \e broken again - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

<p><font size="2">From: Peter Eisentraut [<a href="mailto:peter_e@gmx.net">mailto:peter_e@gmx.net</a>]</font><br
/><fontsize="2">> </font><br /><font size="2">> Is there a Windows port of the command-line cvs tool?  That
</font><br/><font size="2">> would be a </font><br /><font size="2">> good thing to compare with.</font><br
/><fontsize="2">> </font><p><font size="2">The one that I see most often ( and use here ) is CVSGUI ( <a
href="http://www.wincvs.org/"target="_blank">http://www.wincvs.org/</a> ), which includes a CVS command-line client
despitethe name.  ( The command-line CVS might be from CVSNT, <a href="http://www.cvsnt.com/cvspro/"
target="_blank">http://www.cvsnt.com/cvspro/</a>).</font><p><font size="2">So I thought I'd try a few scenarios, since
Ihave it installed:</font><p><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM DOUBLE-QUOTES IN COMMAND LINE:</font><br /><font
size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook>set EDITOR=D:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe</font><br
/><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d :sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo -e "%EDITOR%" commit -D
xml_reindent.pl</font><br/><font size="2">'D:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,</font><br
/><fontsize="2">operable program or batch file.</font><br /><font size="2">cvs commit: warning: editor session
failed</font><p><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM DOUBLE-QUOTES IN ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE:</font><br /><font
size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook>set EDITOR="D:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe"</font><br
/><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d :sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo -e %EDITOR% commit -D
xml_reindent.pl</font><br/><font size="2">'D:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,</font><br
/><fontsize="2">operable program or batch file.</font><br /><font size="2">cvs commit: warning: editor session
failed</font><p><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM DOUBLE-QUOTES IN BOTH:</font><br /><font
size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook>cvs -d :sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo -e "%EDITOR%" commit -D
xml_reindent.pl</font><br/><font size="2">Unknown command:
`Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe'</font><p><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM SINGLE-QUOTES
INENVIRONMENT VARIABLE:</font><br /><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> set EDITOR='D:\Program
Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe'</font><br/><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d
:sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo-e %EDITOR% commit -D xml_reindent.pl</font><br /><font size="2">Unknown command:
`Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe''</font><p><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM SINGLE-QUOTES
INCOMMAND LINE:</font><br /><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> set EDITOR=D:\Program
Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe</font><br/><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d
:sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo-e '%EDITOR%' commit -D xml_reindent.pl</font><br /><font size="2">Unknown
command:`Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe''</font><p><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM
SINGLE-QUOTESIN BOTH:</font><br /><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> set EDITOR='D:\Program
Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe'</font><br/><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d
:sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo-e '%EDITOR%' commit -D xml_reindent.pl</font><br /><font size="2">Unknown
command:`Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe'''</font><p><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM
BACKSLASH-ESCAPESPACES:</font><br /><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> set EDITOR=D:\Program\
Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe</font><br/><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d
:sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo-e %EDITOR% commit -D xml_reindent.pl</font><br /><font size="2">Unknown command:
`Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe'</font><p><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM
BACKSLASH-ESCAPESPACES AND DOUBLE-QUOTE ON COMMAND LINE:</font><br /><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> set
EDITOR=D:\Program\Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe</font><br /><font
size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook>cvs -d :sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo -e "%EDITOR%" commit -D
xml_reindent.pl</font><br/><font size="2">'D:\Program\' is not recognized as an internal or external command,</font><br
/><fontsize="2">operable program or batch file.</font><br /><font size="2">cvs commit: warning: editor session
failed</font><p><fontsize="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> REM BACKSLASH-ESCAPE SPACES AND SINGLE-QUOTE ON COMMAND
LINE:</font><br/><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> set EDITOR=D:\Program\
Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe</font><br/><font size="2">U:\sandbox\docbook> cvs -d
:sspi:pbort@cleqa.tmwsystems.com:/repo-e "%EDITOR%" commit -D xml_reindent.pl</font><br /><font size="2">Unknown
command:`Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\XEmacs.exe''</font><p><font size="2">------</font><p><font
size="2">Themessage "is not recognized as an internal or external command..." is from the operating system, so CVS is
atleast trying to launch an editor in those cases.</font><p><font size="2">So to answer your question, at least in
part,there is no current good behavior to emulate. At least on this version of CVS:</font><p><font size="2">Concurrent
VersionsSystem (CVSNT) 2.0.51d (client/server)</font><p><font size="2">Copyright (c) 1989-2001 Brian Berliner, david d
`zoo'zuhn,</font><br /><font size="2">                        Jeff Polk, and other authors</font><br /><font
size="2">CVSNTversion (Aug 19 2004) Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Tony Hoyle and others</font><br /><font size="2">see <a
href="http://www.cvsnt.org"target="_blank">http://www.cvsnt.org</a></font><p><font size="2">If you have any other
combinationsthat might make sense, let me know, and I'll give it a try.</font>