On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 21:05:16 +0200 Marco <[email protected]> wrote: > " this works, it opens the calculator and upon closing the calculator > gvim " continues > :!xcalc > > " this opens the calculator and immediately quits and returns to > gvim, in the " past it kept the process running > :!xcalc& > > Did something change in vim regarding opening external processes? How > can I restore the old behaviour? Or more importantly: How can I open > external processes in a non-blocking way?
Based on a recent mailing list post, a workaround/fix is to use setsid. This works: :!setsid xcalc No clue why this became necessary and what changed, but this seems to fix it. Marco -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20200405113759.62ce5efa%40homerow.
