On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, James Coglan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to have my command-line Node program invoke another interactive > shell program (in this case w3m, but think vim, less, and so on) as a child > process so that it appears in my terminal. I thought I could do that like > this: > > require('child_process').execFile('w3m', ['http://www.google.com'], {stdio: > 'inherit'}) > > But it turns out that doesn't work. Is this possible?
Yes, but not with the child_process module (not reliably anyway). Try https://github.com/chjj/pty.js -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
