Re: 'run ahead' execution of script

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 02/24/2015 07:26 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> From what i understand, it's not OS level; it's "Desktop Environment" 
> level. The level that GNOME, KDE, et al live at, a few layers up the 
> stack from the OS per se. On the Linux side, the semantics of that 
> isn't entirely hashed out yet. For geany specifically, check out their 
> "Sockets support" stuff, which governs how multiple geany processes 
> interact. Looks like it's trying to be somewhat DE-agnostic. But is 
> still primarily targeting invocation from a GUI environment, not a 
> shell CLI.
>
> If you want a comparison, check out the `subl` command that's part of 
> the Sublime Text distribution. Sublime Text is an editor that's native 
> to the Mac OS X desktop environment, but provides a `subl` command 
> adapter that has options for integration in to command line workflows. 
> It's aware of how a persistent app (a graphical server, basically) 
> would interact with individual invocations from shell sessions. In 
> particular, it has a blocking "-w" option to "wait for files to be 
> closed before returning" that does pretty much what you're looking for 
> here. This might be a model for extending geany to work with 
> shell-driven editing.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew

Thanks Andrew, that's most interesting.