Re: [Bug-apl] Calling external editor from APL session

[Alexey Veretennikov]

Actually it is a great thread, I also agree with Christian what the
full-text editor support should be a part of interpreter (as it is in
IBM APL2 and Dyalog).

Kacper Gutowski <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:30:14AM +0100, Alexey Veretennikov wrote:
>> Using )HOST Vim complains "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal"
>> and not really useful (can't see what I type for instance).
>> Same if I use popen() via ⎕FIO.
>
> )HOST and popen are essentially the same thing and they both capture
> output of the command you are running.  But as they take command to
> be interpreted by shell, you can explicitly redirect output to the
> terminal yourself:
>
>       )HOST vim >/dev/tty
>
> In case of vim, which reinitializes terminal settings itself and isn't
> bothered by having echo disabled, this is everything you need to make
> it work.
>
> See also <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2016-03/msg00138.html>
> for working proof-of-concept implementation of what Jürgen wrote.
>
> -k

-- 
Br,
/Alexey