@inquirer/external-editor

Edit strings with your preferred text editor via $VISUAL or $EDITOR

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Edit a string with the users preferred text editor using $VISUAL or $ENVIRONMENT

external-editor

Edit a multi-line string with your default editor$ external-editor

Use in a Node.js script to get user input from editor

$ node -e "const edit = require('@inquirer/external-editor'); edit('Initial content').then(result => console.log(result))"

Set custom editor before editing$ VISUAL=vim external-editor