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
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
