The video tutorial is now available! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mKXSbVGdE

I'll address the specific issue about starting sub processes shortly when I 
do the  'e*xecute-external-file'  *function in LeoJS.

Félix

On Monday, March 11, 2024 at 1:01:43 AM UTC-4 Félix wrote:

> >  e*xecute-external-file*
>
>
> I'll check it out :)
>
> Félix
>
>
>
> On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 10:20:38 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I don't know if you got around to thinking about it yet (you've got so 
>> much else going on!), but the command I wrote to run external files is in 
>> LeoPyRef and it's called *execute-external-file*.  It has some 
>> trickiness because it has to run on Linux as well as Windows, and the 
>> terminal commands to launch programs differ among the distros. The code has 
>> to try some empirical hacks to figure it all out. But it ought to port to 
>> TS pretty easily, I would think.
>>
>> On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 9:46:57 PM UTC-5 Félix wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still working on this! Thanks for your patience :) 
>>>   
>>> (The latest LeoJS 0.2.12 release is the result of trying to capture many 
>>> features for that video tutorial, and realizing that they needed a bit of 
>>> polishing!)
>>>
>>> Félix
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 7:18:33 PM UTC-5 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yay!
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 7:12:26 PM UTC-5 Félix wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to take a coding break by doing a tutorial exactly about 
>>>>> that!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 4:56:12 PM UTC-5 [email protected] 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Now That leoJS is getting into pretty good shape - and Felix must 
>>>>>> need a month's vacation! - I am thinking about plugins and scripts that 
>>>>>> can 
>>>>>> do things that are easy to do from within Leo. Specifically, scripts 
>>>>>> that 
>>>>>> can read and write files from the file system, and files that do the 
>>>>>> equivalent of subprocess.run() or subprocess.Popen().  In addition (or 
>>>>>> maybe it's in the same group), scripts that launch a web browser on a 
>>>>>> specified file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there somewhere we can read up on these things, that is, how a 
>>>>>> leoJS script can do them in javascript/typescript?
>>>>>>
>>>>>

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