[Pythonmac-SIG] Unix-amateur question

[Ed Leafe]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> In this particular case, IPython executes
>
>   $EDITOR temp_file
>
> and waits for the process to exit. open starts the application and  
> exits
> immediately, so IPython thinks the user has finished editing the  
> file. As Ed
> Leafe mentioned, BBEdit comes with a convenient command-line  
> executable for just
> this use. Since this is a common idiom for programs that start  
> external editors,
> this executable ought to have the desired behavior (possibly  
> available through a
> command line option). One should use this executable instead.

	It does. I use BBEdit for my Subversion editor, so I have:

SVN_EDITOR='bbedit -w'

in my environmental settings. The '-w' option means 'wait for the  
file to close'. What's good about this is that you don't have to quit  
BBEdit; simply closing the file ends the 'wait'.

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