From jamesd at jml.net Wed Jan 28 10:25:52 2004 From: jamesd at jml.net (James Davis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:08:39 2004 Subject: OxPM: execute vim in foreground Message-ID: I'm probably overlooking something silly but no amount of Googling and reading of documentation has come up with the answer I'm looking for. I wish to execute vim from within a perl script in order to edit some text, then return to the perl script. However if I use a simple qx/vim foo/; I get... Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal and vim hides from view. What should I be doing instead? James -- "You're turning into a penguin. Stop it" http://jamesd.ukgeeks.co.uk/ From pete at clueball.com Wed Jan 28 10:36:45 2004 From: pete at clueball.com (Peter Sergeant) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:08:39 2004 Subject: OxPM: execute vim in foreground In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040128163645.GA17453@linuxufo.com> > qx/vim foo/; > > and vim hides from view. What should I be doing instead? system('vim foo'); +Pete -- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. -- Henry David Thoreau