🖋 Open the default text editor 🖋
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🖋 editor - Open the default text editor 🖋
editor opens a text editor for an existing file, a new file, or a tempfile,
blocks while the user edits text, then returns the results.
You can specify a command line that runs the editor, but usually you leave it
empty - in that case, editor uses the the command line from the environment
variable VISUAL, or if that's empty, the environment variable EDITOR, or if
that's empty, either Notepad on Windows or vi elsewhere.
Example 1: Using a temporary file
If no filename is provided, a temporary file gets edited, and its contents returned.
import editor
MESSAGE = 'Insert comments below this line\n\n'
comments = editor(text=MESSAGE)
# Pops up the default editor with a tempfile, containing MESSAGE
Example 2: Using a named file
If a filename is provided, then it gets edited!
import os
FILE = 'file.txt'
assert not os.path.exists(FILE)
comments = editor(text=MESSAGE, filename=FILE)
# Pops up an editor for new FILE containing MESSAGE, user edits
assert os.path.exists(FILE)
# You can edit an existing file too, and select your own editor.
comments2 = editor(filename=FILE, editor='emacs')
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