Patch to add an external viewer command about pter HOT 8 CLOSED

Good idea; I don’t use another viewer than my editor, but I see how it can be useful.

Thanks a lot for contributing as much as you do, I’m really grateful!

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I'm not sure yet how to do this, but have a look at this commit: it's possible to use the note parameter in hooks.

Maybe there's a way here to (for example), have pter run in something like tmux and set up the on-select hook to automatically open (reuse?) a note viewer in a split panel right next to pter. Maybe. I don't have the time to check how to do this in detail, but it should be possible.

Anyway, I'll still pull your changes in 😁

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After more testing, I've switched to viewer = nano --restricted --view --nohelp instead of less. I use nano as the external editor, so this makes sense. And nano is used as a fallback value for editor anyway.

I've also discovered that when a pager like less or batcat --pager always is used, you can press Ctrl-C to exit the viewer abnormally, which crashes pter. Perhaps Ctrl-C can be trapped, I don't know, but I've set up nano as both editor and viewer with a custom nanorc and this works great for me.

In any case, I would suggest defaulting to nano --view as a fallback viewer.

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less works fine once Ctrl+C is caught. So I used less and more as the fallbacks. Also -- it's in!

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No problem, happy to help!

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Sounds like a good idea. I had some problems running pter in tmux (I think some keys failed to work, but this may have been fixed by now.) I'll check it out!

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Just in case, here's the same patch set, only against https://codeberg.org/vonshednob/pter/commit/0f1a4bcfd045f0123be2604d75e4714a396740a9:

96-view-note-1.diff.gz
96-view-note-2.diff.gz
96-view-note-3.diff.gz
96-view-note-4.diff.gz
96-view-note-5.diff.gz

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less works fine now, yes!

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