You are right, when trying to open an editor which actually launches in a new window works fine.
What's not working is when running under Linux from a terminal and try to open up "vi" which would run in the same terminal. I'm guessing all input/output is captured which should not happen here. It results in no editor being launched at all. Antoine On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Angel Java Lopez <ajlopez2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en