Opening files in UltraEdit from shell

benlong · Dec 22, 2006#12006-12-22T00:54+00:00

Hi Folks,

I generally use ultraedit for most needs. I use SecureCRT for accessing our CVS system. Is it possible to open files in UltraEdit from within the shell prompt? Or access the shell from within ultraedit for navigating to specific files to open?

Thank you for your thoughts.

- Ben

Bego · Mar 21, 2007#22007-03-21T14:05+00:00

Hi Ben,

Opening UE from shell is not possible.
I use a small perl-script called ue that includes the full path of a file, so I can just mark this in the shell (mouse), switch to UE, Press F10 (Open ftp in my case) and paste it into the field "Filename", so I can load it without filetree-clicking.
Example:
Shell:
~/daten/scripts/unix> ue test.txt
"/home/bego/daten/scripts/unix/test.txt"

EDIT
With perl you can copy a selection into clipboard automatically, but not with the version we have here.
so a shell-function in your alias-file (you surely have) does the job of printing anyway:

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function ue () { cdir=`pwd`; echo \"${cdir}"/"$1\";}

ENDEDIT

rds Bego