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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 03:47:04 +0100
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On 06/06/2024 02:18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 11:59:19 +0100, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> 
>> So I just call system with nano.
> 
> The trouble with system(3) is it requires a shell as an intermediary, with
> consequent pitfalls involving command-line parsing.
> 
> More robust to use posix_spawn(3).
 >
The concept is an ANSI C only shell.

I can write my own text editor on top of Posix easily enough.
But I want to implent an "edit" command so that users can edit files.

And you just can't edit files without non-ASCII keys.

So at the moment I call system with nano, and it wotks. But it's a 
clunky solution.

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