Dan Espen writes:
>Glen Lee Edwards <Glen_at_fcwm.org> writes:
>> I use the following perl script, which reads from a directory and creates fvw
>> m
>> buttons for each file name:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>...
>> The "$EDITOR" variable is a system variable defined in ~/.bash_profile that I
>> 'd
>> like to be able to change on the fly so I can from an xterm define which text
>> editor is used to edit the files in the respective directory. Currently the
>> only way I've been able to accomplish this is to quit the fvwm2 session and
>> redefine $EDITOR from console. Is there a way I can do this while still in t
>> he
>> fvwm2 session? Doing a restart would be acceptable, but it would be nice to
>> be
>> able to just type in an xterm "$ "EDITOR=emacs" and have the change recognize
>> d
>> by fvwm.
>
>Start the FvwmCommand server.
>
>Do:
>
>FvwmCommand "setenv EDITOR emacs"
Wow. I didn't think it was possible, but thought I'd ask the question anyway.
Glad I did. I set up an FvwmButton that has all the text editors I use, and
when I click on the one I need it is set as the default $EDITOR. Then, when I
click on a file listed by the other buttons, viola! we're off.
Fvwm is definitely the best Window Manager!
Glen
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Received on Fri Dec 14 2001 - 17:25:57 GMT