> Console Vim doesn't need a pseudo terminal, he was talking about gvim.
Indeed. Thanks for clarifying that, Tony. > So I think yes, gvim creates a pseudo terminal. If I repeat the command I get > /dev/pts/0 again but I suppose once the terminal has been closed its device > can be reused. Yes; I confirmed that before I wrote, actually. I will get the same ptty used over and over if I just repeatedly do :!tty from gvim, but if I open another terminal window in between, it takes that ptty and then :!tty will give me a different one. Cheers, Ben. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
