On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:48:29 +0100
Patrice Kiener <patrice.kie...@inmodelia.com> wrote:
> system2(getOption("editor"), fileREP, wait = FALSE)
Starting a new terminal is somewhat hard, but the shortest path to
getting this particular command working would be options(editor =
'gvim'). It's almost like Vim in a terminal, plus a few features useful
in a windowed interface.
Note that gvim backgrounds itself by default, so this would break
edit() and file.edit(): since the GVim process started by R terminates
almost immediately after spawning a child to do the rest of the work, R
decides that the editing session is done. Unfortunately, it's hard to
make R's edit() pass the -f flag to gvim to prevent it from doing that,
but a trivial shell script wrapper could be used for that purpose:
#!/bin/sh
exec gvim -f "$@"
--
Best regards,
Ivan
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