devtool / recipetool: use common code for launching editor

Looking at Chris Larson's code for starting the user's editor for
"recipetool newappend" it was slightly better than what I wrote for
"devtool edit-recipe" in that it checks VISUAL as well as EDITOR and
defaults to vi if neither are set, so break this out to its own function
and call it from both places. The broken out version passes shell=True
however in case it's a more complicated command rather than just a name
of an executable.

(From OE-Core rev: 184a256931e8cdc7bea97a905c4e67a435964de0)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py b/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
index 69e76d8ea2..aef19d3d73 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import os
 import logging
 import glob
 import argparse
+import subprocess
 
 def logger_create(name):
     logger = logging.getLogger(name)
@@ -101,3 +102,17 @@ def fetch_uri(d, uri, destdir, srcrev=None):
         os.chdir(olddir)
     return ret
 
+def run_editor(fn):
+    if isinstance(fn, basestring):
+        params = '"%s"' % fn
+    else:
+        params = ''
+        for fnitem in fn:
+            params += ' "%s"' % fnitem
+
+    editor = os.getenv('VISUAL', os.getenv('EDITOR', 'vi'))
+    try:
+        return subprocess.check_call('%s %s' % (editor, params), shell=True)
+    except OSError as exc:
+        logger.error("Execution of editor '%s' failed: %s", editor, exc)
+        return 1