fix: handling of EDITOR env var #10855
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The `ipfs config edit` command did not correctly handle the `EDITOR` environment variable correctly when its value contains flags and arguments, i.e. `EDITOR=emacs -nw`. The command was treating the entire value of `$EDITOR` as the name of the editor command. This has been fixed to parse the value of `$EDITOR` into separate args, respecting shell quoting. Closes #9375
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| editorAndArgs, err := shlex.Split(editor, true) |
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Note: go-shlex has not had a commit in 5 years. However, the code of go-shlex is 193 lines long with some sane tests. Perhaps no changes are needed because it works perfectly?
I didn't see any Windows-specific tests.
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Note that google/shlex does not handle POSIX correctly in the case of the last argument in this example:
https://go.dev/play/p/EuYSLJB8p5t
Maybe that does not matter?
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i think using anmitsu/go-shlex is fine, we have it pulled by quic-go's deps anyway
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The `ipfs config edit` command did not correctly handle the `EDITOR` environment variable correctly when its value contains flags and arguments, i.e. `EDITOR=emacs -nw`. The command was treating the entire value of `$EDITOR` as the name of the editor command. This has been fixed to parse the value of `$EDITOR` into separate args, respecting shell quoting. Closes #9375 (cherry picked from commit 4195a1d)
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ipfs config editcommand did not correctly handle theEDITORenvironment variable correctly when its value contains flags and arguments, i.e.EDITOR=emacs -nw. The command was treating the entire value of$EDITORas the name of the editor command. This has been fixed to parse the value of$EDITORinto separate args, respecting shell quoting.Closes #9375