Subj : First World Problems.
To   : Accession
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Mar 03 2016 06:21 pm

  Re: First World Problems.
  By: Accession to Digital Man on Thu Mar 03 2016 05:01 pm

 > Hello Digital Man,
 >
 > What would the *correct* way be to run nano from a javascript?
 >
 > I've tried..
 >
 > system.exec("/usr/bin/nano");
 > bbs.exec("/usr/bin/nano",mode=EX_NATIVE);
 >
 > ..and neither of them seem to work. Synchronet runs as root so permissions
 > are not an issue.

Both of these will execute "/usr/bin/nano". But if you want the input/output to
be intercepted and sent to the remote user, you'll need use either bbs.exec()
with the EX_INR and EX_OUTR flags set (for input and output redirection), like
so:
        bbs.exec("/usr/bin/nano", EX_NATIVE|EX_INR|EX_OUTR);

But the best way to run an external editor is to configure it as an external
editor (in SCFG) and run it from JS with console.editfile(filename);

                                            digital man

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