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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: script-invoked editor
Keywords: script editor elm sh csh
Message-ID: <4612@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 89 14:13:16 GMT
References: <292@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <292@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
+I have been trying to invoke an editor from elm via a script.  It seems
+to work if it is a sh script, but not a csh script.  I do not
+understand sh as well as I do csh, and it seems less capable, so it
+would be nice if this situation could be rectified.

ELM uses the *standard* library function system(3) to invoke the editor
you've specified in your elmrc (or the default editor as configured).
That means that your editor is interpreted as a Bourne shell command line
less the name of the file which to edit. That's why your csh script doesn't
work.

You should be able to specify your editor as "csh -c [name of csh script]".
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