NAME¶
kuesvr - the CERN KUIP edit server
SYNOPSIS¶
kuesvr -p
pid -c
cmd -t
tmpfile [ -e
editor ]
file
DESCRIPTION¶
kuesvr is a small program called from KUIP. (KUIP stands for Kit for a
User Interface Package; it is part of the Packlib library from CERN.)
kuesvr allows the user to call up an editor from within a KUIP program
(PAW, for instance) on the file given by
file, and continue to use the
program asynchronously.
In general
kuesvr is not called directly from the command line (in Debian
it is not even located in the $PATH); instead it will be run automatically
from a KUIP program when an editor is needed, as long as the command line set
with KUIP's HOST_EDITOR command ends with an ampersand ('&'), and $DISPLAY
is set. If $DISPLAY is unset (or, on non-Debian systems, if
kuesvr
cannot be found in $PATH), the ampersand will be ignored. For instance,
PAW > HOST_EDITOR 'emacs -geometry 80x48 &'
The editor is expected to create its own graphical window. However, since 'vi'
is a frequent choice, setting HOST_EDITOR to 'vi &' will automatically be
interpreted as 'x-terminal-emulator -e vi &' instead.
OPTIONS¶
- -c cmd
- Specifies the KUIP command invoking the edit server.
- -e editor
- Specifies the editor to be used. By default it is vi. Even though this
flag is optional, it will be set anyway when kuesvr is called from
the KUIP library.
- -p pid
- Specifies the process ID of the calling program.
- -t tmpfile
- Specifies the name of the temporary file used for communication between
the calling program and the edit server. This is a Debian extension added
for security reasons. It is a required argument, so this version of
kuesvr will not work with a KUIP application using CERN's
unmodified Packlib; nor will CERN's unmodified kuesvr work with the
Debian version of Packlib.
SEE ALSO¶
•
paw(1) - a program that can use the edit server
• the KUIP online help available with command "help
host_editor"
• the KUIP manual, available at
http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/psdir/kuip.ps.gz
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).