From 373033a285faa6b21b67ff8d4fbf9f22352002a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micah Jerome Ellison <micah.jerome.ellison@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 20:34:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] #790 - closing temp file before passing it to editor to
 prevent file locking issues in Windows

---
 jrnl/util.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index 5918b14b..7af8d6c4 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -142,21 +142,26 @@ def scope_config(config, journal_name):
 
 def get_text_from_editor(config, template=""):
     filehandle, tmpfile = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="jrnl", text=True, suffix=".txt")
+    os.close(filehandle)
+
     with open(tmpfile, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         if template:
             f.write(template)
+
     try:
         subprocess.call(
             shlex.split(config["editor"], posix="win" not in sys.platform) + [tmpfile]
         )
     except AttributeError:
         subprocess.call(config["editor"] + [tmpfile])
+
     with open(tmpfile, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         raw = f.read()
-    os.close(filehandle)
     os.remove(tmpfile)
+
     if not raw:
         print("[Nothing saved to file]", file=sys.stderr)
+
     return raw