Re: tlf and the nano editor

[Thomas Beierlein]

As a final touch TLF now rereads the whole logfile after the editing
command is finished.
That was not implemented correctly before.

For all that who want to experiment with a graphical editor (gedit,
gvim, ...) make sure that the editor stays in foreground and blocks TLF
until editing is done. Otherwise rereading and scoring may be wrong and
need to be corrected by ':rescore' command afterwards.

E.g., for gvim you can use 'EDITOR=gvim -f'.

Be aware that that is normally not the case for the EDITOR variable in
environment.

73, de Tom

Am Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:33:58 +0100 schrieb Thomas
Beierlein <address@hidden>:

> Hi, 
> 
> please see the improved version on the same link as yesterday.
> 
> From the commit message:
> 
> > Improve editor handling
> >
> >- Uses it also for :CFG and :SET commands
> >- Fall back to editor defined in environment if not defined in
> >  logcfg.dat
> >- Show warning if editor program not found  
> 
> @nate: I tested it with gedit and gvim -> works. What is emacs doing?
> 
> 
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
> 
> 
> Am Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:19:53 +0100
> schrieb Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > as the fixed choice of editors is quite a nuisance I prepared a
> > changed version for tests. Please find it at
> > https://github.com/dl1jbe/tlf/tree/new_editor
> > 
> > Download the code and build TLF as told in the INSTALL file. Do not
> > forget the 'autoreconf -i' step.
> > 
> > The new version accepts any string as editor command and will just
> > call that program with the logfile name as parameter.
> > 
> > That means
> > 
> > EDITOR=my-shiny-editor
> > 
> > in logcfg.dat will call
> > 
> > 'my-shiny-editor <logfilename>'
> > 
> > So a simple EDITOR=nano should do afterwards.
> > 
> > Please test and give feedback. 
> > 
> > 73, de Tom DL1JBE
> > 
> > Am Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:08:52 -0600
> > schrieb jim smith <address@hidden>:
> >   
> > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:06:14 +0100
> > > Joop Stakenborg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I have gotten used to the GNU nano editor, but it does not seem
> > > > to work with tlf. When I type :edit in the callsign field, tlf
> > > > exits and returns straight away without opening nano. Both joe
> > > > and vi work okay here. It is hard to debug, have to spent some
> > > > time on it to see what actually happens. Maybe use gdb with a
> > > > break added. I will have a look next week.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 73 de Joop PG4I
> > > >       
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Joop,
> > > 
> > > I don't know if this helps any, but I don't have any problems
> > > running nano with tlf on ubuntu 18.04. I have *not* updgraded to
> > > tlf 1.4 yet (was going to do that this weekend.    
> > 
> > 
> >   
> 
> 
> 



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