On 01/12/2017 08:58 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:53 PM, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: >> On Wed 11 Jan 2017 at 22:38:48 (-0500), kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >>> Just unalias the alias corresponding to edit (the one you set up in >>> ~/.zshrc) before launching reportbug. After that set it back. IIUC >>> there is no need to launch a bash subshell to do this. You can do >>> everything while you are in zsh. >>> >>> So the sequence of commands would be >>> >>> % unalias edit >>> % reportbug & >>> % alias edit='emacsclient -c -s /tmp/emacs1000/server' >> If you're going to do it that way, you've really got to >> interrogate the old value and restore it afterwards, rather >> than having edit defined in two places. Otherwise, how do >> you keep them in sync. >> >> Most people wouldn't run reportbug often enough to worry >> about a subshell, would they? > I have another idea to try. You can specify the editor explicitly by > using the -e option. > > % reportbug -e emacs Sorry for the preposterously long delay; what, we went through two freezes while this came up again? This does work; similarly % reportbug -e "emacsclient -c -s /tmp/emacs1000/server" works with the behavior I expect (spawn an emacs window connected to the current session...) Now, following the discussion about aliases, is it safe to have alias reportbug='reportbug -e "emacsclient -c -s /tmp/emacs1000/server" ' somewhere? > > or set the EDITOR environment variable for just the reportbug command. > For example > > % EDITOR=emacs reportbug > > raju -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com
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