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From: murphy@hao.ucar.edu (Graham Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: DM editor as a process
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Date: 22 Nov 89 18:26:21 GMT
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Reply-To: jimr@summer.su.oz.au (Jim Richardson)
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Organization: Dept. of Pure Mathematics/Univ. of Sydney
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[ The following item is posted on behalf of a friend in Australia whose
news articles have been disappearing in transit and who feels he has
been yelling himself hoarse with nobody able to hear ... please reply
directly to him at the address below, or post a follow-up if of general 
interest. ]

Is there a way of using the DM editor from within a process, for example,
in place of EDITOR=/ucb/bin/vi for editing from within mail, etc?

Note that

	xdmc ce filename

is *not* suitable, because the xdmc command returns immediately instead of
waiting for you to exit from the edit pad.

I seem to remember this question being asked in the bad old days of SR9,
and there being no known answer.  Have things improved with SR10?  Maybe
some sort of trick with "crpad -i" would do it, but I haven't been able
to work one out.

Note that this would also be useful for when you are logged in as yourself
but su'd to someone else in a window: you could edit their files via the
DM editor even though you yourself do not have access.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
--
Jim Richardson
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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