On 3 February 2016, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mi, 03 Feb 2016, LCD 47 wrote:
>
> > On 3 February 2016, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Lcd wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 3 February 2016, Danek Duvall <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > I think the most reliable thing to do here is to have a way to
> > > > > know the pid and kill it directly, but since ! goes through
> > > > > a shell, you don't have any way of knowing what the pid of
> > > > > test_channel.py is.
> > > >
> > > > Or just make the server write its PID to a file with an
> > > > unique name. This is still not ideal, but it's probably good
> > > > enough for tests.
> > >
> > > Like we do for the port number. OK, that can work for now. But
> > > we need job control functionality anyway. We should use that once
> > > it's implemented.
> > >
> > > Vim can already start jobs, but currently always waits for them
> > > to finish (with "!cmd" or system("cmd")). Should not be too
> > > difficult to run a job in the background and get its PID. At
> > > least on Unix, not sure about MS-Windows.
> >
> > Sure, job control is long overdue, but IMO it wouldn't be
> > simple.
>
> BTW: is it just me, or does it feel like rushing to integrate job
> control now? I mean, its not like we don't have enough bugs waiting to
> be fixed and it feels like integrating jobcontrol now into Vim is like
> opening a whole new can of worms.
>
> I apologize if I sounded overly pessimistic or un ungrateful. I really
> enjoy the momentum that development currently gains, but perhaps those
> patches should be integrated at the beginning of the 7.5 cycle, so
> they have some time to flesh out correctly.
+1, getting job control right is likely to take many patches, maybe
an entire major version all by itself.
/lcd
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