launch-editor

✏️ Launch your code editor using Node.js.

Feature

• support async/await
• error handlers and codes
• support more editors and platforms.
• specify the editor to launch

Install

$ npm install @umijs/launch-editor -S

Usage

Commonjs

const launchEditor = require('@umijs/launch-editor');

(async () => {
  try {
   const res = await launchEditor.default(config)
  } catch (e) {}
})()

ES6 / TypeScript

import launchEditor from '@umijs/launch-editor';

(async () => {
  try {
   const res = await launchEditor(config)
  } catch (e) {}
})()

Configuration

launchEditor(path, [options]): Promise

path

Type: string | object | Array<string | object>

files or project path you want to open in the editor.

options

Type: object

editor

Type: string | string[] Default: Auto-detected (current process or existed editors, envs)

the function return a Promise, if having an error when launching the editor, there are some error code and message, editor (if you specify) you might use.

code	message
EPERM	the path is permission denied
UNKNOWN	couldn't find your editor, might not install
OTHER	unknown error couldn't catch

editorOpts

Type: object Default: []

Extra options for the specified editor params, e.g., VSCode using ["-n"] to force to open a new window.

getEditors(): void

guess how many editors you have in current system.

Commonjs

const { getEditors }  = require('@umijs/launch-editor');

guessEditor();

=>

[
  { name: 'subl', commands: [''] },
  { name: 'vscode', commands: [''] },
  { name: 'idea', commands: [''] },
  { name: 'atom', commands: [''] },
]

Development

$ npm install
$ npm run dev

Test

$ npm install
$ npm run test

Supported editors

Value	Editor	Linux	Windows	OSX
code	Visual Studio Code	✓	✓	✓
atom	Atom	✓		✓
code-insiders	Visual Studio Code Insiders	✓	✓	✓
sublime	Sublime Text	✓	✓	✓
webstorm	WebStorm	✓	✓	✓
idea	IDEA	✓		✓