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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>>> Posting guidelines: >>>> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: >>> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
