On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:38:23 -0700, Jinghui wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using gvim on the Linux. I would like to know how to set .vimrc
> file to let gvim run in the background automatically.
> 
> i.e. after I type in 'gvim file_name' and press enter, the gvim window
> pops up as well as the next command prompt shows up. I don't what to
> type in '&' at the end of file_name for running gvim in the background
> or must close the gvim window for typing in the other commands.

I thought that was the default, and you had to do gvim -f or
gvim --nofork if you wanted to prevent getting another shell prompt. I 
guess you should check to make sure you don't have any shell aliases 
getting in the way.

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/


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