Starting Your favorite editor from Erlang

[Per Bergqvist]

Note that under windows you need to either use forward slash
or quote the backward slash.

However I think there is a bug regarding long file names with 
spaces. Only if I use the short equivalent it works.

os:cmd("c:\Program
Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.11\i586-pc-win32\xemacs.exe"). %% NOT OK,
expected

os:cmd("c:\progra~1\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.11\i586-pc-win32\xemacs.exe").%
% NOT OK, expected

os:cmd("c:/Program
Files/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.11/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe"). %% NOT OK BUG

os:cmd("c:\\Program
Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.11\\i586-pc-win32\\xemacs.exe"). %% NOT OK
BUG

os:cmd("c:\\progra~1\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.11\\i586-pc-win32\\xemacs.ex
e"). %% OK

os:cmd("c:/progra~1/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.11/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe").
%% OK

/Per
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> Does anyone know how to start Your favorite editor
> e.g. Vi or Emacs from an Erlang program and then
> getting the text back into erlang?
> 
> I have tried os:cmd("the correct path\gvim.exe") on
> windows but no succes.
> 
> /Anders Nygren
> 
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