[email protected] wrote: > Chris Green writes: > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 01:06:47PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > >> I am invoking xvile from a firefox extension (textern if anyone is > >> interested, it's a replacement for "It's all text" which doesn't work > >> on Firefox 57 or newer). > >> > >> For this to work xvile needs to stay in the foreground when invoked, > >> i.e. it needs to to what gvim does with "gvim -f". Is there any way > >> to get it to do this or will I need some sort of wrapper? > >> > >To be more explicit I need xvile to not detach from the calling > >process. This is so that the caller blocks until xvile exits. > > I guess I don't understand what you're asking. When I run xvile, > the program stays in the foreground and the shell waits for the > program to end. If that's what you're asking for, then as far as I > can tell, the answer is "It does that by default."
i just said the same thing privately to chris -- forgot to cc: the list. paul > > If your Firefox extension is doing something unusual, then perhaps you > need to address your question to the author of the Firefox extension. > https://github.com/jlebon/textern has some suggestions also. > > --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > vile mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/vile > =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 30.6 degrees) _______________________________________________ vile mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/vile
