It amazes me how often a question about some capability of node is answered
with one or more spot-on solutions.  I guess lampp can offer the same
convenience but node is only a few years old.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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