On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Russ Cox<r...@swtch.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Tim Newsham<news...@lava.net> wrote: >>> 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. > > I don't think you need to be that fancy. > Lorenzo Bolla already pointed out E in this thread, > and it exists exactly for this purpose. > > http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/sam.html > (description of E is at the end) > > Russ > >
One caveat about E: if you're paranoid like I am and save your file many times while editing, E will not be terribly friendly until you train yourself to save only when finished. (This is not a criticism of E, it is merely a warning to people with my kind of idiosyncrasies)
