Hi Joop, thanks for the test. It was just a quick shot for a test. I will look into it tomorrow evening.
In the case that someone forgot to specify the EDITOR= command I will fall back to the editor specified in the environment. 73, de Tom Am Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:57:59 +0100 schrieb Joop Stakenborg <joop.stakenb...@xs4all.nl>: > Hi Tom, > > > it works okay for the :edit command, but you need to change the code > for both the :set and :cfg commands (which allows editing of > logcfg.dat), they both start the joe editor, even though I have > EDITOR=nano in logcfg.dat. > > The code is in changepars.c > > Thanks, > > Joop > > Op 22-11-19 om 20:19 schreef Thomas Beierlein: > > Hi all, > > > > as the fixed choice of editors is quite a nuisance I prepared a > > changed version for tests. Please find it at > > https://github.com/dl1jbe/tlf/tree/new_editor > > > > Download the code and build TLF as told in the INSTALL file. Do not > > forget the 'autoreconf -i' step. > > > > The new version accepts any string as editor command and will just > > call that program with the logfile name as parameter. > > > > That means > > > > EDITOR=my-shiny-editor > > > > in logcfg.dat will call > > > > 'my-shiny-editor <logfilename>' > > > > So a simple EDITOR=nano should do afterwards. > > > > Please test and give feedback. > > > > 73, de Tom DL1JBE > > > > Am Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:08:52 -0600 > > schrieb jim smith <n0...@sbcglobal.net>: > > > >> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:06:14 +0100 > >> Joop Stakenborg <joop.stakenb...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> > >>> I have gotten used to the GNU nano editor, but it does not seem to > >>> work with tlf. When I type :edit in the callsign field, tlf exits > >>> and returns straight away without opening nano. Both joe and vi > >>> work okay here. It is hard to debug, have to spent some time on it > >>> to see what actually happens. Maybe use gdb with a break added. I > >>> will have a look next week. > >>> > >>> > >>> 73 de Joop PG4I > >>> > >> > >> Hi Joop, > >> > >> I don't know if this helps any, but I don't have any problems > >> running nano with tlf on ubuntu 18.04. I have *not* updgraded to > >> tlf 1.4 yet (was going to do that this weekend. > > > > -- "Do what is needful!" Ursula LeGuin: Earthsea --
