ammon@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon) (08/17/90)
Is there anyway to get a (Bourne) shell script to bring up a file in the dm editor? Right now I am calling vi, but I would also like to be able to bring up the editor you get when pressing the EDIT key. Thanks. danny ammon ammon@neon.stanford.edu
valante_g@apollo.HP.COM (Glen E Valante) (08/18/90)
In article <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, ammon@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon) writes: > > Is there anyway to get a (Bourne) shell script to bring up a file > in the dm editor? Right now I am calling vi, but I would also like > to be able to bring up the editor you get when pressing the EDIT key. from the shell, you can execute: /com/xdmc ce <file_name> The xdmc will execute a display manager command, and the ce is a create edit..... A help on Dm commands will give you some other ideas of things to try, like dr to specify placement of the window and cv for a read only pad. thanks, --glen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glen Valante | These are my opinions... Apollo / Hewlett-Packard | North American Customer Support | ________________________________________________________________________ ________
glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) (08/22/90)
In article <4c41b6e2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, valante_g@apollo.HP.COM (Glen E Valante) writes: > In article <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, > ammon@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon) writes: >> >> Is there anyway to get a (Bourne) shell script to bring up a file >> in the dm editor? Right now I am calling vi, but I would also like >> to be able to bring up the editor you get when pressing the EDIT key. > > from the shell, you can execute: > > /com/xdmc ce <file_name> Unfortunately, /com/xdmc only works if it is executed from an Apollo pad, i.e. _not_ inside an xterm. So, your script won't be as portable if you use this technique. You _can_ do the following: /usr/bin/X11/dmwin /usr/apollo/bin/xdmc ce <absolute_path_name> But this leaves a "scrap" DM window lying around. Ah well, if you like the DM editor, you probably don't care about xterms anyway... :-/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn P. Parker Bitstream, Inc. uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street glenn@bitstream.com Cambridge, MA 02142-1270
schneidr@cs.washington.edu (Scott Schneider) (08/22/90)
In article <GLENN.90Aug21184506@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com>, glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) writes: > In article <4c41b6e2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, > valante_g@apollo.HP.COM (Glen E Valante) writes: > > In article <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, > > ammon@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon) writes: > >> > >> Is there anyway to get a (Bourne) shell script to bring up a file > >> in the dm editor? Right now I am calling vi, but I would also like > >> to be able to bring up the editor you get when pressing the EDIT key. > > > > from the shell, you can execute: > > > > /com/xdmc ce <file_name> > > Unfortunately, /com/xdmc only works if it is executed from an Apollo pad, > i.e. _not_ inside an xterm. So, your script won't be as portable if you > use this technique. You _can_ do the following: > > /usr/bin/X11/dmwin /usr/apollo/bin/xdmc ce <absolute_path_name> > > But this leaves a "scrap" DM window lying around. Ah well, if you like the > DM editor, you probably don't care about xterms anyway... :-/ You can also modify the 'dmwin' source (/usr/X11/examples/dmwin) to create an EDIT pad instead of a TRANSCRIPT pad so that it doesn't leave a "scrap" DM window laying around. It also creates the EDIT pad a lot faster. Here are my modifications to DMWIN. Note: the code is not very clean cuz I was in a hurry. --------------- dmedit.c ----------------- pad_$window_desc_t w_desc = {200,300,875,650}; main( int argc, char **argv, char **envp ) { extern char *optarg, *getenv(char *a); extern int optind; status_$t st; ios_$id_t fd; char **ep; char sw; char *infile; int errflag = 0, rawflag = 0, i; infile = "/usr/tmp/tempfile"; /* default file if none passed */ while ( (getopt( argc, argv, "?fh" )) != EOF ) switch(sw) { case 'f': infile = argv[optind]; break; case 'h': case '?': errflag++; } if (errflag) { fprintf( stderr, "usage: %s [-f filename]\n", argv[0] ); exit(2); } /* create an edit pad */ pad_$create_window (infile, (short)strlen(infile), pad_$edit, 1, w_desc, &fd, &st); if (st.all != status_$ok) { fprintf (stderr, "%s: could not create window\n", argv[0]); exit (1); } close (fd); exit (1); } > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Glenn P. Parker Bitstream, Inc. > uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street > glenn@bitstream.com Cambridge, MA 02142-1270 Enjoy! -- Scott Schneider Boeing Commercial Airplane schneidr@june.cs.washington.edu
sasjfp@unx.sas.com (Jeffrey L. Phillips) (08/24/90)
In article <4c41b6e2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> valante_g@APOLLO.HP.COM writes: >In article <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, >ammon@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon) writes: >> >> Is there anyway to get a (Bourne) shell script to bring up a file >> in the dm editor? Right now I am calling vi, but I would also like >> to be able to bring up the editor you get when pressing the EDIT key. > >from the shell, you can execute: > >/com/xdmc ce <file_name> This is nice, but will not work from any foreign windows, ie. xterms. This will create an error like this: ?(xdmc) Error executing DM command "ce" - stream is not a pad (display manager/Pad manager) One way to get around this (if you use xterms, at least) is to prefix it with /usr/bin/X11/dmwin. This creates a DM window so that an 'xdmc' command can be executed. Here is an example: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/dmwin /com/sh "xdmc 'ce $1'" You may have to play with the quotes to get it right, but it works in foreign windows like xterms. Enjoy. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Just because I don't know what it means doesn't mean I'm lying." Jeff Phillips Email: sasjfp@dev.sas.com