Awesome, thanks.

It required a small patch and now it's working on 0.8.x


Antoine

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Dominic Tarr <[email protected]> wrote:
> substack has a module that does this
> https://github.com/substack/node-editor
>
> I haven't used it, but someone mentioned it, and this jogged my memory
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Antoine van Wel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You are right, when trying to open an editor which actually launches
>> in a new window works fine.
>>
>> What's not working is when running under Linux from a terminal and try
>> to open up "vi" which would run in the same terminal. I'm guessing all
>> input/output is captured which should not happen here. It results in
>> no editor being launched at all.
>>
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Angel Java Lopez <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> I just tried in Node REPL, Windows, and it worked fine. The editor is
>>> launched, and when I close the editor (nodepad++), the "and we're back..."
>>> message appears.
>>>
>>> What did you expect?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Antoine van Wel <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm programming a small command-line application and want to open up
>>>> an external editor, and hand back control to node after the user exits
>>>> the editor. Tried opening up vi with child_process.exec and .spawn but
>>>> that did not quite do what I expected.
>>>>
>>>>   1 var exec = require("child_process").exec;
>>>>   2
>>>>   3 var child = exec("vi /tmp/test", function(error, stdout, stderr) {
>>>>   4   console.log("and we're back...");
>>>>   5 });
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Antoine
>>>>
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