getting prepped for better sudo script

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / core / variables.sh

diff --git a/scripts/core/variables.sh b/scripts/core/variables.sh
index 3596c0c4f5ae4141c832487dea8019dde4ba868b..c843dba6d20c4544bcd4438e67a889622e8da031 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/variables.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/variables.sh
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 
 ##############
 
-#hmmm: moved from functions.sh; does that hose everything up?
-
   # defines a variable within the feisty meow environment and remembers that
   # this is a new or modified definition.  if the feisty meow codebase is
   # unloaded, then so are all the variables that were defined.
@@ -30,6 +28,17 @@
 return 0
   }
 
+  # switches from an X:/ form to a /cygdrive/X/path form.  this is only useful
+  # for the cygwin environment currently.
+  # defined here rather than in functions.sh since we need it when setting variables
+  # and cannot count on load order during a fresh startup in some circumstances.
+  function dos_to_unix_path() {
+    # we always remove dos slashes in favor of forward slashes.
+#old:    echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z]\):\/\(.*\)/\/\1\/\2/'
+         echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z]\):\/\(.*\)/\/cygdrive\/\1\/\2/'
+  }
+
+
 
 ##############
 
@@ -318,12 +327,10 @@ done
 # a late breaking action is to set the editor, if we can.
 # we will fallback to whatever we can find on the host.
 export EDITOR
-if [ ! -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
-  # only try to add bluefish, a gui editor, if there is an X display for it.
-  if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
-    EDITOR="$(which bluefish)"
-  fi
-fi
+# note: the editors for revision control must wait while the document is
+# edited, so gvim and others that launch a separate x window are not
+# going to work well unless they can be prevented from forking the process
+# off.
 if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
   EDITOR="$(which gvim)"
   if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
@@ -337,12 +344,18 @@ fi
 if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
   EDITOR="$(which vi)"
 fi
-##
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+  EDITOR="$(which emacs)"
+fi
+####
 # out of ideas about editors at this point.
-##
-# set the VISUAL variable from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
+####
+# set the VISUAL and other variables from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
 if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
   VISUAL="$EDITOR"
+
+  export GIT_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
+  export SVN_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
 fi
 
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