Make the ViEditVisually function more flexible by allowing $env:VISUAL / $env:EDITOR to contain an executable name *with options* #3214

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Description of the new feature/enhancement

Currently $env:VISUAL / $env:EDITOR may only contain an executable name or path, not also options.

However, to make your favorite editor act properly with this feature - a blocking invocation that returns control to the terminal when the window is closed - options may be required.

For instance, VSCode (Visual Studio Code) requires code --new-window --wait <file> ...

Therefore, you must currently create a helper (non-PowerShell) shell script / batch file in order to incorporate the necessary option, which is a lot of ceremony.

To address that, the interpretation of $env:VISUAL / $env:EDITOR could be extended to allow specifying a command line (prefix) as follows:

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

• First, as currently, see if the value as a whole refers to an executable (typically via $env:PATH) and, if so, use that.

• If not, see if the first whitespace-separated / double-quoted token refers to an executable, and use that, passing all remaining tokens through as options (arguments).

• If not, as currently, beep to indicate that no (valid) editor is configured.

For instance, this would allow users to set $env:VISUAL as follows for VSCode:

$env:VISUAL = 'code --new-window --wait'

Note: Git, which also respects these environment variables, already supports this.