substack has a module that does this
https://github.com/substack/node-editor
I haven't used it, but someone mentioned it, and this jogged my memory
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Antoine van Wel
<antoine.van....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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