Ah! OK. If I remember I start it with "gvim ... &!" and that does what I
want. Or maybe nohup ... haven't tried that yet.

Bill

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:59 AM Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 16, 2016, at 08:48, Bill Waggoner <ctgreybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I love vim. I run vim usually in GUI mode via gvim all the time. I've
> noticed that the fink version does not fork when it starts. On other
> platforms (Raspberry Pi for example) gvim forks as the documentation says
> it should.
> >
> > Is there a way I can get the fink version to fork? There is a --nofork
> option but no --fork one that I can tell.
> >
> > Bill Waggoner
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> Very likely not.  The vim executable links to the CoreFoundation
> framework, and that doesn’t really get along with forking—it was disallowed
> as of 10.5.
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