Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 6/7/2024 2:37 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

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As for portability, I'm not aware of the $EDITOR convention being used
on non-POSIX systems.  I suppose there's no real guarantee that, for
example, system("nano filename") will invoke nano on the named file;
different systems could have different command syntax.
 

Well, think of a system that has a program called nano, except it's a little different:
system("nano filename")
NANO = Nuclear Annihilation Non-Returnable Operation
Say, NANO does not know the file types, so it goes into default mode. Nuke the system...
nano might run a text editor... Or it might run something else... Fair enough?