support for opening file in editor using ```v``` key

[chrisbeardy]

Not sure if a bug or a non implemented feature.

When using less you can open the file in the default text editor by pressing the v button. and on exit of the text editing it returns to less.

It would be great to add this to mdless for quick editing of files.

Currently I am getting the error message Cannot edit standard input (press RETURN)

When pressing the v key.

[ttscoff]

This is because it's passing the rendered output to less (or your configured pager) via STDIN, not writing an editable file to disk. Once it's passed to the pager, I can't intercept keystrokes anymore, so it's not feasible to implement coding writing my own pager, and I'd rather not do that.

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-Brett

On 19 Jun 2020, at 8:51, chrisbeardy wrote: Not sure if a bug or a non implemented feature. When using less you can open the file in the default text editor by pressing the ```v``` button. and on exit of the text editing it returns to less. It would be great to add this to mdless for quick editing of files. Currently I am getting the error message ```Cannot edit standard input (press RETURN)```  When pressing the ```v``` key. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #53

[chrisbeardy]

I see, this makes sense, I just read the code now and can see now that it's just piping to the pager and not actually rending the text itself. Should have had a look before. Nevermind. Nice little program though!