shell out to vim from repl

gistfile1.txt

there's a one liner I've got somewhere, I can even exec vim, edit a file, then exit back to a repl





2:15
the gotcha is you have to make the shell (which is reading form the same terminal) wait for the process to exit






Eamonn Sullivan  2:15 PM
@noisesmith, that sounds like a good workaround. Can you share the one-liner?






noisesmith  2:15 PM
grabbing it now





2:16
@Eamonn Sullivan
user=> (-> (ProcessBuilder. ["nvim"]) (.inheritIO) (.start) (.waitFor))
0





2:16
that 0 is the exit code of neovim





2:17
you can of course add more args to that vector, or run /bin/sh if you need redirects etc.





2:18
the waitFor prevents the editor and the repl from fighting over the same characters on input (edited)