On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:36 PM, ArgleFargle <rretter AT gmail DOT com> wrote: > Hello, > > Running vim -g (vim in "graphical" mode) on Linux. > > Vim seems to place itself in background (in terms of process, not > graphical display) upon starting up. The command by which vim was > started completes and the shell prompt is once again available while > vim is still running. > > Is it possible to tell vim not to do this? > > Under some circumstances, it would be useful to keep the Linux shell > waiting until vim has finished (for instance, if vim were invoked from > within a shell script and subsequent commands require that the editing > has finished). > > Thank you for any help you can provide, and my apologies if this is a > repeated (or offensively simple) question. > > > -- Rob > > --
The --nofork option should do it for you. See: :help --nofork or more generally: :help starting or just: vim --help -Jon -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
