Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!kaarts From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Message-ID: <1991May14.165745.1646@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 14 May 91 16:57:45 GMT References: <1991May7.035139.21051@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <21343@cbmvax.commodore.com> Distribution: na Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 24 In <21343@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes: >In article <1991May7.035139.21051@ccu.umanitoba.ca> kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes: >>P.S. The whole point of this excersize is to write a new ed (starter for >>CygnusEd) that will when called with an arguement (while ced is already loaded) >>will just open a ced view for that file, instead of asking to start a new ced >>process. If this improvement has been made my anybody, let me know and save me >>this hassle! Also let me know if I am doing something stupid with Ced that >>this is not the automatic responce. >Um, I just tried that, and that's exactly what "ed" does. If you have Ced >already running, then "ed" opens a new view in the existing Ced screen or >window. Running "ced" a second time gives you a second Ced process. >Are you sure you don't have "ed" aliased to "ced" or something? > Peter When I try ed file1 file2 ... when ced is already running, ed puts up a requester saying that a copy of ced is already running and do I really want to start a new one? When ed is run without arguements it does what you described. Ken