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From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: neat feature in "more"
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.172938.133@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 23:29:38 GMT
References: <435@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <5376@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <SCOTT.91Feb27082023@erick.gac.edu>
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In article <SCOTT.91Feb27082023@erick.gac.edu>, scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
> In article <5376@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
>    In article <435@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)  
>    writes:
>    > 
>    > After a little experimentation and hitting "?" for documentation,
>    > I found out that if you hit 'o' while you're in more(1), the file
>    > that you're currently viewing will be opened in Edit.  Pretty neat.
> 
> 
>    Note this does not work if you have used simsong's EL2 stuff to
>    open docs...  I won't ask_next to figure out why, and I don't have
>    sources to find out for myself.
> 
>    error generated: openfile: Can't connect to Edit
> 
> This is for the same reason you probably can't do it by dbl-clicking on
> a source file in InterfaceBuilder (well, at least you couldn't in 1.0).
> For some reason or another, NeXT chose to code it as an openfile(1) call
> rather than an open(1) call.  Why?  I don't know.  But, this means that
> any non-Edit editor you come up with won't interact all that well with
> InterfaceBuilder, more, and presumably other programs (though I've
> not run across any, yet).
> 
> One fix you _might_ attempt would be to replace openfile with some other
> program (like an emacs-client).  I'm not sure if it is good enough
> to place an openfile command in your path before /usr/bin, or if
> you'd have to physically replace openfile (probably wouldn't be the
> the best idea unless you are the only user :-).
> 
> Later,
> --
> scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
> Independent NeXT Developer	GAC Undergrad
> <I still speak for nobody>
> "Tried anarchy, once.  Found it had too many constraints . . ."
> "Buy `Sweat 'n wit '2 Live Crew'`, a new weight loss program by
> Richard Simmons . . ."

I don't have "EL2" installed and I still get "openfile: Can't connect to Edit".
Any ideas.

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