[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

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Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> writes:

>> Can you start emacs without problems from konqueror at right
>> click/open with/  on any machine? I mean without `xterm -e emacs'
>>
>>
>>   
> Not running konqueror here, but yes, emacs would fire up quite
> reliably when I had it as my source editor in mozilla, way back
> when. You most definitely SHOULD be able to run it without a terminal
> window. If you are really keen on getting this to work, you could
> write a little script like so to use as your editor: ----
> #!/bin/bash
> date >>~/emacs.log
> emacs "$@" >>~/emacs.log 2>&1

Thanks for the input... that is a good idea, and surprisingly works
fine.  But does not provide the slightest clue why such a work around
is necessary.  Nothing but the date gets written to emacs log.

Apparently for some reason there needs to be a sort of cutout between
Konq and emacs, but not so with kate or kwrite.

> Come to think of it (while looking up the $@ semantics), could it be
> that the argument fed from konqueror has spaces in it? Maybe it needs
> quoting?

I'm not sure how to capture whatever it is that konq is doing.  I
don't think its throwing an error.  But not really sure how to tell
other than looking for .xsessions* file or something else with a kde
error in it.

I think it is just timing out silently.

However it seems it would be almost guaranteed that there would be
spaces in the command `emacs %s' or something similar.

> Experiment with adding </dev/null onto there (that never did it for
> me). Have a look at what the log says.

Just for the record... no soap there.  I'd already tried another
non-promising test, adding the background sign `&' which didn't seem
likely to help and as expected, did not.

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