[Zope] External Editor and OpenOffice: workaround

Ivo van der Wijk ivo@amaze.nl
Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:11:12 +0100


Hi all,

External Editor won't work with OpenOffice because OpenOffice detaches 
immediately (or terminates after notifying the running instance to open 
the file).

I've hacked together a solution for this problem. It should be applicable
to all detaching programs that cannot be forced to run in the foreground.

It requires a working 'lsof' on your system (i.e. Linux, but I understand
lsof is available for several unices)

More info: http://vanderwijk.info/python/ExternalEditor


Cheers

	Ivo

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