export interface ExternalEditorRequest {
    command: string;
    content: string;
}
export type ExternalEditorResult = {
    status: "complete";
    content: string;
} | {
    status: "failed";
};
/**
 * Quote one argument for `cmd.exe`.
 *
 * Node does not quote arguments when `shell: true`, so any value holding a
 * space would otherwise be split into several arguments by the shell.
 * Backslashes are only special when they precede a quote, so double just
 * those runs (plus a trailing run, which would escape the closing quote),
 * escape embedded quotes, then wrap the result.
 */
export declare function quoteWindowsShellArgument(value: string): string;
export declare function resolveExternalEditorCommand(configuredCommand?: string, environment?: Readonly<Partial<NodeJS.ProcessEnv>>, platform?: NodeJS.Platform): string;
export declare function editInExternalEditor(request: ExternalEditorRequest): Promise<ExternalEditorResult>;
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