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NAME

Meta::Tool::Editor - library to activate your faivorite editor.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Editor.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.08

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Tool::Editor qw();
        my($system_exit_code)=Meta::Tool::Editor::edit("myfile.txt");

DESCRIPTION

This package will activate your favorite editor on a set of files. It will consult the EDITOR environment variable and other options and data to determine what that editor is and how to run it. Currently just activation of the editor is supported (vi...).

FUNCTIONS

        edit($)
        edit_mult($)
        edit_line_char($$$)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

edit($)

Edit a file using your favorite editor (vi).

edit_mult($)

Edit a list of files using your favorite editor (vi).

This method will open up an editor on the specified file and will place the cursor on the specified line and character.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mark2776@yahoo.com
        WWW: http://www.geocities.com/mark2776
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV perl reorganization
        0.01 MV get imdb ids of directors and movies
        0.02 MV perl packaging
        0.03 MV md5 project
        0.04 MV database
        0.05 MV perl module versions in files
        0.06 MV movies and small fixes
        0.07 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.08 MV more thumbnail issues

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

-Add a routine to activate the editor with a regular expression to be searched (both for a single file and for multiple files). Then use this routine in base_tool_grep_edit

-Support other editors (emacs etc..)

-implement the edit_line_char method.

-read the editor from an XML configuration file or from envrionment variable.