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# Module: `lib.editorhooks`

‘editor’ hooks for common editors that work well with ipython

They should honor the line number argument, at least.

Contributions are very welcome.

## 11 Functions

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``install_editor`(template, wait=False)

  Installs the editor that is called by IPython for the %edit magic.

  This overrides the default editor, which is generally set by your EDITOR environment variable or is notepad (windows) or vi (linux). By supplying a template string run_template, you can control how the editor is invoked by IPython – (e.g. the format in which it accepts command line options)

  Parameters:

  template : basestring

  > run_template acts as a template for how your editor is invoked by the shell. It should contain ‘{filename}’, which will be replaced on invokation with the file name, and ‘{line}’, $line by line number (or 0) to invoke the file with.

  wait : bool

  > If wait is true, wait until the user presses enter before returning, to facilitate non-blocking editors that exit immediately after the call.

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``komodo`(exe=u'komodo')

  Activestate Komodo [Edit]

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``scite`(exe=u'scite')

  SciTE or Sc1

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``notepadplusplus`(exe=u'notepad++')

  Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``jed`(exe=u'jed')

  JED, the lightweight emacsish editor

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``idle`(exe=u'idle')

  Idle, the editor bundled with python

  Parameters:

  exe : str, None

  > If none, should be pretty smart about finding the executable.

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``mate`(exe=u'mate')

  TextMate, the missing editor

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``emacs`(exe=u'emacs')

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``gnuclient`(exe=u'gnuclient')

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``crimson_editor`(exe=u'cedt.exe')

`IPython.lib.editorhooks.``kate`(exe=u'kate')

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