From 47aa63c64a6ed398ac6c9ab616da3aec01fe1628 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Davis <josh@joshldavis.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:16:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Allow editor config value to be either list or str

---
 jrnl/util.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index 223ff00e..a9515b79 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -121,7 +121,9 @@ def get_text_from_editor(config, template=""):
     with codecs.open(tmpfile, 'w', "utf-8") as f:
         if template:
             f.write(template)
-    subprocess.call(config['editor'].split() + [tmpfile])
+    editor = config['editor']
+    args = editor if isinstance(editor, list) else editor.split()
+    subprocess.call(args + [tmpfile])
     with codecs.open(tmpfile, "r", "utf-8") as f:
         raw = f.read()
     os.close(filehandle)