vis

commit 274bc3ae21ebba6e19c8834e97df0913fe4b8d31
parent bb8ec4fdee6d169f1079f3ff7956b3ec83bc24e1
Author: Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>
Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:41:53 +0100

vis-menu: also re-open /dev/tty as stderr

This means vis-menu will also work when stderr is used for other purposes.

This will be used by the vis editor:

 - stdin is used for the initial completion candidates
 - stdout is used to return the selected entry
 - stderr is used for error reporting

Diffstat:
M
vis-menu.c
 | 
4
+++-

1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/vis-menu.c b/vis-menu.c
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ drawmenu(void) {
 
 	}
 	fprintf(stderr, "\033[%iG", (int)(promptw+textwn(text, cursor)-1));
+	fflush(stderr);
 }
 
 static char*
@@ -317,7 +318,8 @@ setup(void) {
 	struct winsize ws;
 
 	/* re-open stdin to read keyboard */
-	if (!freopen("/dev/tty", "r", stdin)) die("Can't reopen tty.");
+	if (!freopen("/dev/tty", "r", stdin)) die("Can't reopen tty as stdin.");
+	if (!freopen("/dev/tty", "w", stderr)) die("Can't reopen tty as stderr.");
 
 	/* ioctl() the tty to get size */
 	fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR);