This happens on quite a few linux windows managers but I'm not discounting something outside of vim being at fault here - vim is the only place I've experienced this.
I have a gvim session with: gvim --servername $USER and then I load new files with: vim --servername $USER and gvim will pop up into focus but generally my cursor will stay on the command line. I thought I had asked this before, so I googled and found quite a few (not my) posts: http://objectmix.com/editors/149356-gvim-window-not-given-focus-when-loading-file.html http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/raising-gvim-window-to-front-td1169442.html https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_use/r4NKUumRrqE/rZN3U-Xv5ZsJ http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2006-January/016091.html --remote-tab <file> Also (might be a different issue) - when I open a file and a file has changed (the one I'm opening or one in another tab) like after a git checkout and vim is confused and asks me what to do, vim won't maintain focus after I deal with the dialog. If none of this is clear or reproducable, I'll look into a perltk test case. I have a script in my zshrc to automate this: # make vim use or initialize a session with a new tab unless... # alias this so that we can do \vim to get to the exe vimfunc () { local cmd local servername local remote local misc local version local username=$(echo $USER | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]") local opt_ex="^-" while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do case "$1" in --servername) if [[ $2 =~ $opt_ex ]] ; then echo "Servername option without a parameter. Doing nothing." return else servername="$2" shift fi ;; --remote*) if [ -z $remote ] ; then if [[ $2 =~ $opt_ex ]] ; then remote="$1" else remote="$1 $2" shift fi else # I'll deal with this properly if it is reasonable to take multiple --remote* things echo "Should not call two remote options at once. Doing nothing." return fi ;; --version*) version="1" ;; *) misc="$misc $1" ;; esac shift done cmd="vim" if [ ! -z $servername ] ; then cmd="$cmd --servername $servername" else cmd="$cmd --servername $username" fi if [ -z $misc ] && [ -z $remote ] ; then # list version if we asked for that if [ ! -z version ] ; then cmd="$cmd --version" fi ${=cmd} return fi if [ ! -z $remote ] ; then cmd="$cmd $remote $misc" else cmd="$cmd --remote-tab $misc" fi echo $cmd ${=cmd} return } -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
