Re: nedit -server not working
On 2/14/2013 10:08 PM, Mark Jackson wrote: On 2/14/2013 9:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:16:47 -0500, Mark Jackson wrote: Since updating my (rather stale) Cygwin installation in late December I find that the server mode of nedit isn't working. Both nc (which I had been accustomed to using) and nedit -server open nedit as if the server flag were not there. How so? Normal behavior - at least as I have experienced it on SunOS and Solaris, and Cygwin until the December upgrade - is that the shell prompt returns, and subsequent invocations of nc filename open additional tabs in the nedit window created by the initial invocation. At present control is not returned to the shell. Launching nedit as a separate process by other means does not result in it acting as a server - that is, a subsequent nc filename launches a fresh nedit window. OK, is *anyone* using nedit on Cygwin these days? If so, would you please tell me whether server mode is working properly for you? -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson Sometimes sarcasm helps us think more clearly. - Dogbert (Scott Adams) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: nedit -server not working
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:16:47 -0500, Mark Jackson wrote: Since updating my (rather stale) Cygwin installation in late December I find that the server mode of nedit isn't working. Both nc (which I had been accustomed to using) and nedit -server open nedit as if the server flag were not there. How so? Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: nedit -server not working
On 2/14/2013 9:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:16:47 -0500, Mark Jackson wrote: Since updating my (rather stale) Cygwin installation in late December I find that the server mode of nedit isn't working. Both nc (which I had been accustomed to using) and nedit -server open nedit as if the server flag were not there. How so? Normal behavior - at least as I have experienced it on SunOS and Solaris, and Cygwin until the December upgrade - is that the shell prompt returns, and subsequent invocations of nc filename open additional tabs in the nedit window created by the initial invocation. At present control is not returned to the shell. Launching nedit as a separate process by other means does not result in it acting as a server - that is, a subsequent nc filename launches a fresh nedit window. -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson Sometimes sarcasm helps us think more clearly. - Dogbert (Scott Adams) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
