Re: launching a single instance of nedit for each text file

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey TK,
>
> --On Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:53:52 AM +0000 TK Soh
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Can you give some scenario where you don't want to use nc?
>
> I can give an example. Specifically, I use the nedit binary as my
> default editor with
>
>  EDITOR=/usr/bin/nedit
>
> Because many clients will launch that editor and block on that program's
> exit. It does no good if the program returns before I am finished
> editing. For example, when using NEdit as my text editor for mail
> composition, or for News clients.

Will 'nc -wait' work for you?

> I think that the current layout, with nedit as one thing, and nc as
> another is probably the right way to go. It's easier for me, for one
> thing, and it's really not that hard to learn about nc. The only issue
> is that netcat is also listed as nc, so I vote to change the executable
> name to ncl.
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