halkyon / go-editor-capture-input

Test program in Go to demonstrate opening a file with $EDITOR and capture input

What is this?

A demonstration of using command line execution in Golang to open a file with $EDITOR, and then read back the contents once the file has been closed by the editor.

Examples of where this is useful is for interactively editing application configuration files. Kubernetes does this with the kubectl edit command, for example.

Usage

go get github.com/halkyon/go-open-with-editor

$ go-open-with-editor

This will create a temporary file test12345.txt in your system temp path.