On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, David Emerson wrote:
Hi there, Suppose I have a lazarus source editor open. I would like to, from my command line shell, issue a command to open a new source in the already-open source editor. Is this possible? Why? If I have a shell open in a directory, it's very quick to tab-complete a file within a directory. It's nice to be able to issue a quick command to open that file in my editor, rather than using the cumbersome gui file selection interface. I've written scripts to do this with a few other apps, but it requires support from the app in question.
It should in fact be easy to program this, using the simpleIPC protocol. IDE acts as a server, and when the IDE starts, it checks whether the server is available. If so, it sends a command to open the file. Or, on Linux, D-BUS could be used for this. Windows might have some easy DDE schedule for this. Michael. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
