Calling any text editor for any text file
Marcin Zajączkowski
mszpak at wp.pl
Sat Sep 22 21:31:35 UTC 2007
Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Saturday 22 September 2007, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
>> Ville Skyttä wrote:
>
>> Does emacs graphical interface (doesn't need a console)?
>
> Yes. It also starts faster than XEmacs and integrates better with the desktop
> (at least look and feel wise) so I suggest trying it before XEmacs in the
> script.
Ok. I don't know them. I prefer Vim :)
> Also, I don't know if XFCE comes with a text editor or a few, they could also
> be added to the mix.
I asked my friend and he told me that mousepad (already on the list) is
a good choice for a try with Xfce.
But, Xfce users, other propositions for Xfce are welcome.
>> But if you know more programs (packagers) that have similar problem a
>> script could be enhanced to be more "powerful" :)
>
> I do see some general purpose use cases for such a script.
Thanks :)
>> Btw, is there a simple way to determine already running desktop
>> environment?
>
> One way is in /usr/bin/xdg-open, see detectDE() in it.
A nice hack :). But it probably works.
I will think about some optimizations.
>>> - Would be nice to have this kind of a tool in xdg-utils, eg. as
>>> "xdg-edit" or "xdg-open --edit". Ask xdg-utils upstream?
>> Why not. I wrote it because that option was missing in xdg-utils.
>>
>> But maybe I'm the only one who needs that functionality?
>
> I don't think so. Additionally, I think this would be useful for other file
> types besides text files for viewing vs editing, eg. image files.
xdg-open for open operation uses mime types and assigned application.
I'm not sure how application for edit operation should be defined/choose.
Marcin
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