@Bram I often just open GVim (Windows 7, 64 bit) w/o any file name. As I always use the OLE version of GVim, and only want/need one incarnation of GVim - so I have to start GVim with '--remote-silent ""', resulting in the above mentioned error message; omitting the '""' ('--remote-silent') produces a syntax error message.
This behavior could certainly be circumvented with a script, checking for the GVim process or using gvim --serverlist (as it was proposed in another thread), but from my point of view - it would make more sense to have GVim accept the same major switches and arguments, independent of its invocation method ('--remote' or not), which is currently not the case. E.g. the following two invocations of GVim behave differently: gvim +:5 --remote-silent snort.min gvim +:5 snort.min -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.