Re: A widget for the user's editor of choice

Larry W. Virden wrote:
Looks like the xterm that Sun uses doesn't support -into.

It only depends on the version of the XServer, that is used. If you
use the current versions of Xorg on your Solaris-machine, then your
xterm also knows "-into", because xterm is part of X11.

The reason, why the OPs example does not work is explained in the man-
page of xterm:
"-into windowId
Given an X window identifier (a decimal integer),
xterm will reparent its top-level shell widget to that window. This
is
used to embed xterm within other applications."

It says, that the WindoID must be a decimal integer string, but [winfo
id .f] returns a hex-string. Changing the line to

exec xterm -into [expr [winfo id .f]] -e $env(EDITOR) &

solves the problem, since [expr] returns a decimal string.

HTH, regards
Stephan

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