Re: Next coup: Menus in foreign languages

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

>one of many source files, without opening yet a further editor window. The
>desired functionality would be closest that provided by nedit
><http://www.nedit.org/help/server.php>
>
>
>John used to have some patches to achieve something like this, but they seem
>to have been scrapped.

I always felt that this could be achieved much more simply using
open_process or open_process_pipe without modifying jed's source code.
A separate slang script would write commands to a named pipe (fifo),
which would be processed by the subprocess "output-handler".  A simple
function such as

    public define server ()
    {
       setbug (" *server*);
       variable pid = open_process_pipe (...);
          .
	  .
    }

could be invoked via the command line using

    jed --server 

Conceptually, this seems quite simple but as the saying goes, the
devil is in the details.

--John

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