Re: [gedit-list] save current file

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

At 17:29 -0500 12/24/08, John Kitzmiller wrote:
> For an External Tool, how to save/overwrite the current file with same
> name before running command on it?
>
> e.g. (You may have seen this before...):
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ---> what goes in here to save current file? <---
> mpost "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME"
>
> The result I seek is what happens with the LaTeX plugin: when a .tex
> file is modified, it is saved prior to processing.

It is possible to select  "current document" to be sent to the tool 
using the edit tools option at the bottom of the tools window but you 
can get the same result with appropriate comment lines in the tool 
itself right under the #! line.

Have a look at a tool in $HOME/,genome2/gedit/tools/ to see the format.

For a really big document that might be painful but you should be 
able to read standard in and just rewrite 
$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME.

But using the path variable would remove the possibility that your 
tool is using the wrong directory - did it read a shell startup 
script for you?


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