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/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
