editor

Documentation

Overview

Package editor encapsulates working with external text editor.

Index

• func EditLoop(fname string, initial string, parse func(updated string) error) error

Functions

func EditLoop

func EditLoop(fname string, initial string, parse func(updated string) error) error

EditLoop launches OS-specific editor (VI, notepad.exe or anoter editor configured through environment variables) It creates a temporary file with 'initial' contents and repeatedly invokes the editor until the provided 'parse' function returns nil result indicating success. The 'parse' function is passed the contents of edited files without # line commments.