I just tried in Node REPL, Windows, and it worked fine. The editor is
launched, and when I close the editor (nodepad++), the "and we're back..."
message appears.
What did you expect?
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Antoine van Wel
<antoine.van....@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm programming a small command-line application and want to open up
> an external editor, and hand back control to node after the user exits
> the editor. Tried opening up vi with child_process.exec and .spawn but
> that did not quite do what I expected.
>
> 1 var exec = require("child_process").exec;
> 2
> 3 var child = exec("vi /tmp/test", function(error, stdout, stderr) {
> 4 console.log("and we're back...");
> 5 });
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Antoine
>
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