Subj : Re: First World Problems.
To   : Digital Man
From : Accession
Date : Fri Mar 04 2016 04:27 pm

Hello Digital,

On 03 Mar 16 18:21, Digital Man wrote to Accession:

 >> system.exec("/usr/bin/nano");
 >> bbs.exec("/usr/bin/nano",mode=EX_NATIVE);
 >>
 >> ..and neither of them seem to work. Synchronet runs as root so
 >> permissions are not an issue.

 DM> Both of these will execute "/usr/bin/nano". But if you want the
 DM> input/output to be intercepted and sent to the remote user, you'll
 DM> need use either bbs.exec() with the EX_INR and EX_OUTR flags set (for
 DM> input and output redirection), like
 DM> so:
 DM>         bbs.exec("/usr/bin/nano", EX_NATIVE|EX_INR|EX_OUTR);

This worked! And oddly enough worked awesome at that!

 DM> But the best way to run an external editor is to configure it as an
 DM> external editor (in SCFG) and run it from JS with
 DM> console.editfile(filename);

Not sure I understand what you mean here. By "run it from JS" you mean nano?

I suppose I should explain what is going on. I asked Nightfox if he could rip out the function in SlyEdit that reformats MSGTMP with quoted initials, so I could offer up nano as a message editor as well (and possibly even vim in the future), since they can be used in "restricted" mode where nothing on the disk can be altered except the file loaded, ie: MSGTMP.

So after all of that is done, and a new formatted MSGTMP is created, the JS runs nano, where you can edit and save, and then the JS posts the message and exits back to the BBS.

So if there's a better way than the first option above you gave, by all means explain it to me in laman's terms and I'll give that a shot as well. :)

Regards,
Nick

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