Re: PERFORM BLOB editor

On 24 Jun 1998, Jim Kistler wrote: > I need to set a BLOB text editor for my FORM users (PERFORM) that sets > a couple of editor options. But, PERFORM seems to only pay attention to > the editor name and ignores the options. > On my Unix system, I use an editor called "vuepad" > I can set my environment variable "EDITOR" correctly with: > export EDITOR='vuepad -wordWrapOn -geometry 79x40' > but the options are NOT "on" when the editor comes up. > So.....I try making an executable "ksh" script that simply runs the command: > vuepad -wordWrapOn -geometry 79x40 The file name is passed as an argument -- you need to relay it to vuepad: vuepad -wordWrapOn -geometry 79x40 "$@" > and set EDITOR equal to this executable. > Accessing the BLOB NOW give me a correctly "optioned" editor, but when I > try to save the text BLOB, the editor doesn't know where to put the file > and PERFORM doesn't seem to know the file even exists. > The "normal" temporaty file location for text BLOBS is in the /tmp directory, > but I have no idea how PERFORM assigns or finds this. > Has anyone solved this? > I'm running HPUX 9.05 with ISQL and Online 5.04. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN