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Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

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On 2014-09-02 04:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Read $VISUAL, if it exists, otherwise $EDITOR, if it exists,
> otherwise fall back on something hard coded. Or read it from an ini
> file. Or create an entry in the register. Whatever. That's up to
> the application which uses this function, not the function itself.
> 
> Under XP and older the standard DOS editor is EDIT, but that's gone
> from Windows 7. Believe it or not, I understand that you can use:
> 
>     copy con [filename.???]
> 
> to do basic line editing, which is terrifying, but I believe it
> works.

And according to [1], the venerable edlin is still available on Win8,
even if you don't have edit.  Though according to [2], it sounds like
MS-EDIT is still available on at least the 32-bit version of Win8
(it doesn't detail whether it comes out of the box on 64-bit Win8).

I don't have Win8, so I can't corroborate either application.

-tkc

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin#History
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor

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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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