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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-05 12:04:26 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-05 12:04:26 +0100
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parent67c920fa5d9a77543e0e950fdf26e2f502b656d8 (diff)
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edit: Improve error reporting when $EDITOR is not found.
Reported by Benno Evers <benno@bmevers.de> at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00125.html>. * guix/scripts/edit.scm (guix-edit): Wrap 'execl' call in 'catch'. Provide more meaningful error message.
-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/edit.scm11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/edit.scm b/guix/scripts/edit.scm
index fa10a16f31..0509148c4d 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/edit.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/edit.scm
@@ -79,5 +79,12 @@ line."
(leave (_ "source location of package '~a' is unknown~%")
(package-full-name package))))
packages)
- (apply execlp (%editor) (%editor)
- (append-map package->location-specification packages)))))
+
+ (catch 'system-error
+ (lambda ()
+ (apply execlp (%editor) (%editor)
+ (append-map package->location-specification packages)))
+ (lambda args
+ (let ((errno (system-error-errno args)))
+ (leave (_ "failed to launch '~a': ~a~%")
+ (%editor) (strerror errno))))))))