Is there some idiom or method for using Acme as an external editor to some other program? Say I want to use it as the editor that is spawned when I do a CVS commit to a system; how would I do this, or can this even be done? I'm using plan9ports, but I don't know how much of this question relates to what.

I was playing with this exact problem recently. There's an easy way to send a file to acme for editing -- the plumber. There's a downside, it doesn't wait for the editor to save or complete. So.. you could plumb the file and then wait for a save to happen, somehow, or you can write another program that forces a new acme window with the contents of the file and waits for it to either Put or Del. I wrote a small program to do this recently (see the thread: http://9fans.net/archive/2009/06/290) which was a bit hacky, but worked. I solicited some feedback on some questions and got some good advice from Russ (http://9fans.net/archive/2009/06/292) but havent yet gone back and applied it.

        Aaron W. Hsu

Tim Newsham
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