From 9f07e5d9fd226f9333b9a1241a4576d9e894f1b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Howell
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:10:14 +0100
Subject: Handle $EDITOR with spaces

Fixes Homebrew/homebrew#40
---
 Library/Homebrew/utils.rb | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Library')

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index d01436c78..2a8dff002 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -91,5 +91,8 @@ def exec_editor *args
       editor='vim'
     end
   end
-  exec editor, *args
+  # we split the editor because especially on mac "mate -w" is common
+  # but we still want to use the comma-delimited version of exec because then
+  # we don't have to escape args, and escaping 100% is tricky
+  exec *(editor.split+args)
 end
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