19 replies to this topic

[kursad]

pushpathadam, on 23 April 2010 - 01:09 PM, said:

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

Try setting it up in your "houdini.env"

[pushpathadam]

kursad, on 21 June 2010 - 12:47 PM, said:

Try setting it up in your "houdini.env"

I did set it in the houdini.env as
EDITOR = /Applications/Textwrangler.app

When I hit the external editor button in the expression editor window I get this error:

Spawn Error: : Permission denied
Error running /Applications/Textwrangler.app
Argument list:
   0: /Applications/Textwrangler.app
   1: /tmp/hfs11156-134.tmp.str

-Tom P

[pushpathadam]

Regarding hconfig and the houdini.env file. I was also looking at the houdini.env file in win xp.

I tried to define
JOB= $HOME/Job

same way I have it working in osx.

Having no luck what so ever. I was
modifying the file in HOME%\houdiniX.X\houdini.env

Is this correct? The docs are a bit sparse ..
http://www.sidefx.co...sics/config_env

thanks

Tom

[fxrod]

Using the Mac Terminal is great, Jeff, thanks!

I tried to set the env in my houdini.env file on my Mac in the following dir.

$HOME/Library/Preferences/houdini/10.0/houdini.env

I entered the following, based on Mario's post.

setenv EDITOR = "/usr/local/bin/gvim --nofork"

However, when I try to edit VEX code from the Type Properties window, I get a blank session of vim and none of the code. Is there any other way to confirm that it's expecting to use gvim? I was hoping it wouldn't fork.

Thanks,
Frankie

[fxrod]

fxrod, on 12 July 2010 - 02:18 PM, said:

I entered the following, based on Mario's post.

setenv EDITOR = "/usr/local/bin/gvim --nofork"

Correction...  

EDITOR = "/usr/local/bin/gvim --nofork"

In my shell, I ran the help for EDITOR.

hconfig -h EDITOR

This mentioned that if the VISUAL environment variable is turned on, the EDITOR env var will not work. So, I went to my .cshrc file and removed the VISUAL env var, and it still didn't work..

Any help is appreciated.

[fxrod]

Side FX has replicated the problem and has submitted a bug. If/when it gets fixed, I will post back.

[Macha]

old thread, but any news on this?

I'm trying to get get TextWrangler running as an external editor on a mac but no luck.

[edward]

I don't have a Mac handy but I don't see why it shouldn't work. Test running "TextWrangler.app test.txt" in a shell first and see if that works. Ensure that it does not fork. Secondly, if it's a graphical text editor, then you should set VISUAL, not EDITOR. For the record, this what I have:

EDITOR = "vim"
VISUAL = "gvim -f"