External Tools

Overview

You can quickly switch between Posting and external editors and pagers.

For example, you could edit request bodies in vim, and then browse the JSON response body in less or fx.

You can even configure a custom pager specifically for browsing JSON.

External Editors

With a multi-line text area focused, press F4 to open the file in your configured external editor.

The configured external editor can be set as editor in your config.yaml file. For example:

config.yaml

editor: vim

Alternatively, you can set the POSTING_EDITOR environment variable.

POSTING_EDITOR=vim

If neither is set, Posting will try to use the EDITOR environment variable.

External Pagers

With a multi-line text area focused, press F3 to open the file in your configured external pager.

The configured external pager can be set as pager in your config.yaml file. For example:

config.yaml

pager: less

Alternatively, you can set the POSTING_PAGER environment variable.

POSTING_PAGER=less

JSON Pager

You can use a custom pager for viewing JSON using the pager_json setting in your config.yaml file. For example:

config.yaml

pager_json: jq

Alternatively, you can set the POSTING_PAGER_JSON environment variable.

POSTING_PAGER_JSON=jq

If neither is set, Posting will try to use the default pager lookup rules discussed earlier.