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[beeemtee]

hi,
could someone tell me how is it possible to use an external text editor for scripting?
thanks
bmt

[mic]

beeemtee, on Mar 19 2009, 01:08 PM, said:

hi,
could someone tell me how is it possible to use an external text editor for scripting?
thanks
bmt

http://www.sidefx.co...essions/_custom

Houdini uses the external editor defined by the $EDITOR environment variable. If $EDITOR is not set, Houdini uses a default editor for the platform (e.g. vi or notepad.exe).

[beeemtee]

thanks!

but now:

1. it only opens gvim if i click on the "external editor" button in houdini's default editor not for simple alt-e, as i expected
2. even then it doesn't load the script in hand and not even refresh it, not when i save, nor when i click on the reload button

is it supposed to be like this? do i miss something? what is the common workfolw?

thanks again!
bmt

[beeemtee]

ok it's just don't play nice with gvim. with vim it works.
so i go with vim it's not such a big difference, but if someone know how to work around this i would be really grateful.
thanks anyway!
bmt

[kubabuk]

There is a EDITOR variable in hconfig where you can set the path to your external text editor. Whenever you ctrl-E in houdini your code will be opened in the editor you specified.

[mic]

kubabuk, on Mar 19 2009, 05:44 PM, said:

There is a EDITOR variable in hconfig where you can set the path to your external text editor. Whenever you ctrl-E in houdini your code will be opened in the editor you specified.

yes, and 'hconfig -a' is useful command - you can see all of your houdini variables..)

[oldiesgoodies]

kubabuk, on 19 March 2009 - 06:44 AM, said:

There is a EDITOR variable in hconfig where you can set the path to your external text editor. Whenever you ctrl-E in houdini your code will be opened in the editor you specified.

Hi

I cannot find the hconfig file. Can someone tell me where it is?

thanks

[Mario Marengo]

oldiesgoodies, on 30 March 2010 - 09:55 AM, said:

Hi

I cannot find the hconfig file. Can someone tell me where it is?

thanks

hconfig is an executable, and it should be found in the same place as all your other Houdini executables for your platform (e.g: in Linux, this would be <houdini_install_path>/bin).

With regards to gvim and setting it as your default external editor, this can be done, as stated above, by setting either the EDITOR or VISUAL envars. However, gvim (unlike vim) will normally fork a new process upon startup (i.e: it will run in the background). But for Houdini to be able to stream to/from it, it has to run in the foreground, so you have to disable forking. In cshell, for example, you could set it like this:

setenv EDITOR "gvim --nofork"

HTH.

[oldiesgoodies]

Mario Marengo, on 30 March 2010 - 10:10 AM, said:

hconfig is an executable, and it should be found in the same place as all your other Houdini executables for your platform (e.g: in Linux, this would be <houdini_install_path>/bin).

With regards to gvim and setting it as your default external editor, this can be done, as stated above, by setting either the EDITOR or VISUAL envars. However, gvim (unlike vim) will normally fork a new process upon startup (i.e: it will run in the background). But for Houdini to be able to stream to/from it, it has to run in the foreground, so you have to disable forking. In cshell, for example, you could set it like this:

setenv EDITOR "gvim --nofork"

HTH.

Hi

Thanks for the quick follow up. This should help me out

[pushpathadam]

Anyone know where hconfig lives on a OsX installation?  Or how to set the editor correctly to find
say
Applications/TextWrangler

I get an error with the above string as $EDITOR.

thanks

Tom

oldiesgoodies, on 30 March 2010 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hi

Thanks for the quick follow up. This should help me out

[old school]

On the Mac using the Terminal app, I create a new shell just for houdini set up to properly source the houdini env.

In the Shell area, turn on the Run Command option and put in the following string:

cd /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/10.0.595/Resources;source houdini_setup; cd ~

where the 10.0.595 would be replaced with the version you have installed.

Launch this shell, then type in the hconfig -ap to see the env that Houdini creates on launch.

[Macha]

Has anybody tried this with the Netbeans editor (windows)?

I tried but nothing happens. Maybe I missed something.