On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, at wrote: > > So this relates to my latex-suite question a while back, which I > solved, but is mysterious. > > On my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop if I issue > :!evince sample.pdf > It will open up sample.pdf and leave me free to edit inside gvim. (My > desired result.) > > I have an Ubuntu 9.04 laptop running the same exact configuration of > gvim, yet there when I do > :!evince sample.pdf > Evince will open but I will be unable to edit inside gvim until I > close evince. >
This is what I got in debian lenny and vim7.2. I think this should be the correct behavior. > Now naturally one would think that the trick is to open evince in the > background: > :!evince sample.pdf & > This works for me. Which version of vim do you use? Or will build from source help? VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled May 31 2009 10:57:38) Included patches: 1-191 -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
