Edit a string using $EDITOR from within your node app.
npm install string-editor
var edit = require('string-editor');
// this launches your $EDITOR with a tmp file containing "hello world"
edit('hello world', function(err, result) {
// when you are done editing result will contain the string
console.log(result);
});
Sometimes it can be useful to set an filename to help your editor to enable highlighting etc.
// we pass app.js as a filename to help with highlighting
edit('var a = 42;', 'app.js', function(err, result) {
console.log(result);
})
Note that app.js will still be a tmp file
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