Re: [9fans] Using Acme as an external Editor

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

> 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/