[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40488] 'edit' may overwrite (package) functions when called with full path

[Markus Appel]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40488>

                 Summary: 'edit' may overwrite (package) functions when called
with full path
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mappel
            Submitted on: Wed 06 Nov 2013 10:20:33 AM GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I guess 'edit' was not meant to be called with a full path, but I was curious
and wanted to have a look into the private function 'chunk_parcellfun.m' of
the general package. As it is not found by edit because it's private, I wanted
to take a shortcut by typing


edit ~/octave/general-1.3.2/private/chunk_parcellfun.m


into my octave terminal session where my edit configuration is


edit get all
ans =

  scalar structure containing the fields:

    EDITOR = gedit -b %s
    HOME = /home/mappel/octave
    AUTHOR = Markus Appel
    EMAIL = <address@hidden>
    LICENSE = GPL
    MODE = async
    EDITINPLACE = 0


I ended up with gedit editing a completely empty new file named
'chunk_parcellfun.m' in a path
'[current_path]/~/octave/general-1.3.2/private'. When I looked at the original
file ~/octave/general-1.3.2/private/chunk_parcellfun.m I found it overwritten
by an empty function called '~/octave/general-1.3.2/private/chunk_parcellfun'
with my copyright info on top. Btw, the same happens if I try to edit not
private package functions with full path.

Maybe edit should be more careful when given a full path (which may include
tilde)?




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