Bug#798009: ITP: python-editor -- programmatically open an editor, capture the result

[Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>]

Le vendredi 4 septembre 2015, 22:13:33 Jakub Wilk a écrit :
> * Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>, 2015-09-04, 14:30:
> >python-editor is a library that provides the editor module for 
> >programmatically interfacing with your system's $EDITOR. The user can 
> >then enter a commit message for example.
> >.
> >Editor first looks for the ${EDITOR} environment variable.  If set, it 
> >uses the value as-is, without fallbacks. If no $EDITOR is set, editor 
> >will search through a list of known editors, and use the first one that 
> >exists on the system. For example, on Linux, editor will look for the 
> >following editors in
> >order:
> > * vim
> > * emacs
> > * nano
> 
> Don't forget to patch it to make it §11.4-compliant.

Or kindly ask upstream to add 'editor' at the top of his list of known editors.

I've did it in some project I'm both maintainer & upstream:

https://github.com/fmoo/python-editor/blob/master/editor.py