utils: make which_editor handle editor args.

Handle cases like e.g. `EDITOR="subl -w"`.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/test/utils_spec.rb b/Library/Homebrew/test/utils_spec.rb
index 5f370a040..ffaa1f493 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/test/utils_spec.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/test/utils_spec.rb
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ describe "globally-scoped helper methods" do
     ENV["HOMEBREW_EDITOR"] = "vemate"
     ENV["HOMEBREW_PATH"] = dir
 
-    editor = dir/"vemate"
+    editor = "#{dir}/vemate"
     FileUtils.touch editor
     FileUtils.chmod 0755, editor
 
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index 82bc38895..5e0ad5916 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -321,7 +321,16 @@ end
 
 def which_editor
   editor = ENV.values_at("HOMEBREW_EDITOR", "VISUAL").compact.reject(&:empty?).first
-  return which(editor, ENV["HOMEBREW_PATH"]) unless editor.nil?
+  if editor
+    editor_name, _, editor_args = editor.partition " "
+    editor_path = which(editor_name, ENV["HOMEBREW_PATH"])
+    editor = if editor_args.to_s.empty?
+      editor_path.to_s
+    else
+      "#{editor_path} #{editor_args}"
+    end
+    return editor
+  end
 
   # Find Textmate
   editor = which("mate", ENV["HOMEBREW_PATH"])
@@ -338,7 +347,7 @@ def which_editor
     or HOMEBREW_EDITOR to your preferred text editor.
   EOS
 
-  editor
+  editor.to_s
 end
 
 def exec_editor(*args)