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Re: 'run ahead' execution of script



On 02/24/2015 07:26 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
From what i understand, it's not OS level; it's "Desktop Environment" level. The level that GNOME, KDE, et al live at, a few layers up the stack from the OS per se. On the Linux side, the semantics of that isn't entirely hashed out yet. For geany specifically, check out their "Sockets support" stuff, which governs how multiple geany processes interact. Looks like it's trying to be somewhat DE-agnostic. But is still primarily targeting invocation from a GUI environment, not a shell CLI.

If you want a comparison, check out the `subl` command that's part of the Sublime Text distribution. Sublime Text is an editor that's native to the Mac OS X desktop environment, but provides a `subl` command adapter that has options for integration in to command line workflows. It's aware of how a persistent app (a graphical server, basically) would interact with individual invocations from shell sessions. In particular, it has a blocking "-w" option to "wait for files to be closed before returning" that does pretty much what you're looking for here. This might be a model for extending geany to work with shell-driven editing.

Cheers,
Andrew

Thanks Andrew, that's most interesting.



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