From b344222a9a4dfbd811e196bd755ccbec511d0721 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:35:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] etc-update: handle emacs diff cmd, bug #409849

---
 bin/etc-update | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/etc-update b/bin/etc-update
index 794271ff4..1edc91fab 100755
--- a/bin/etc-update
+++ b/bin/etc-update
@@ -676,7 +676,9 @@ if [[ ${using_editor} == "0" ]] ; then
 		die "'${diff_command}' does not seem to work, aborting"
 	fi
 else
-	if ! cmd_var_is_valid "${diff_command}" ; then
+	# NOTE: cmd_var_is_valid doesn't work with diff_command="eval emacs..."
+	# because it uses type -P.
+	if ! type ${diff_command%%[[:space:]]*} >/dev/null; then
 		die "'${diff_command}' does not seem to work, aborting"
 	fi
 fi
-- 
2.26.2