[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40600] edit: changing EDITOR after first call to edit() has no effect

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #40600 (project octave):

There's nothing special about this patch (see attached). It simply removes the
editor option from edit, and makes it always check the value of EDITOR. I do
not deprecate the option because EDITOR doesn not allow for some much
flexibility.

However, this means that we can't have "fancy" things as editor such as
"gnudoit -q \"(find-file \\\"%s\\\")\"". If you think this a useful thing, an
alternative option (I'm inclined to this), would be to have EDITOR check if
the new string has a %s. If it does, does nothing to it. Otherwise, it's
EDITOR that appends %s to it.

(file #29694)
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