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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:57:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 14:24:29 +0300, Michael S wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 10:47:57 -0000 (UTC)
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:37:42 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> > As for portability, I'm not aware of the $EDITOR convention being
>> > used on non-POSIX systems.
>> 
>> Can non-POSIX systems offer anything better? Any worthwhile
>> alternative?
>> 
>> No.
> 
> Yes. The one below is better.
> ShellExecute(NULL, "edit", filename, NULL, NULL, SW_NORMAL);

On Windows, that combines the command-line arguments into a single string. 
Which then has to be teased apart by the receiving program. Assuming the 
two ends can agree on consistent rules for doing so.