Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

From	alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com>
Subject	Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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Date	2014-09-03 08:06 +0000

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On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:45:54 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:35 PM, alister
> <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> if edlin is your only option then it would be better to spend you time
>> writhing your own text editor!
> 
> Heh!
> 
> Considering how easy it is to deploy a multi-line edit widget in any GUI
> toolkit, it shouldn't be too hard to write a GUI text editor. Now,
> writing a *good* GUI text editor, that's a bit harder. And of course,
> writing a text/console text editor, that's also less simple. But I put
> it to you: How do you write your editor up to the point where you can
> use it to write your editor? We have a bootstrapping problem!
> 
> ChrisA

fortunately i have a proper operating system now so I don't have have to 
use edlin. in the unlikely event that a reasonably featured editor is not 
available I can always use cat :-)



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Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 02:11 +1000
  Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 02:35 +1000
    Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 04:23 +1000
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-09-01 15:06 -0500
        Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-02 08:35 +0000
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 18:45 +1000
            Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-03 08:06 +0000
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-02 17:14 -0400
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 07:36 +1000
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-02 21:49 -0400
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 22:03 -0500
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 08:30 +1000
  Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-09-01 13:06 -0400
    Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 04:02 +1000
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-09-02 08:14 +1000
        Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 13:18 +1000
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 08:25 +1000
  Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python gschemenauer3@gmail.com - 2014-09-01 19:24 -0700

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