Bug 21288

Summary: Bug in editor invocation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: martin
Component: lessAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description martin 2000-11-23 21:47:40 UTC 
When you view a file with a space in name and press 'v' to edit it,
it runs the editor with the first part of name only.
(instead of 'hello world' it opens 'hello')

Some more funny example is 

$ less "yup; rm work.c"
(if you press 'v' then, it will remove your work.c)

It seems that less uses system() instead of fork() & exec() ...
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2000-11-27 15:14:14 UTC 
Setting your $LESSEDIT to "%E ?lm+%lm. '%f'" should help. I'll fix this in the
Rawhide package.

Thanks for the bugreport !
   Karsten