Method: RubyCurses::TextView#edit_external

Defined in:
lib/rbcurse/core/widgets/rtextview.rb

#edit_external ⇒ Object

edit content of textview in EDITOR and bring back NOTE: does not maintain content_type, so if you edit ansi text, it will come back in as normal text



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# File 'lib/rbcurse/core/widgets/rtextview.rb', line 712

def edit_external
  require 'rbcurse/core/include/appmethods'
  require 'tempfile'
  f = Tempfile.new("rbcurse")
  l = self.text
  l.each { |line| f.puts line }
  fp = f.path
  f.flush

  editor = ENV['EDITOR'] || 'vi'
  vimp = %x[which #{editor}].chomp
  ret = shell_out "#{vimp} #{fp}"
  if ret
    lines = File.open(f,'r').readlines
    set_content(lines, :content_type => @old_content_type)
  end
end