Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Re: Running external process in a non-blocking way

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:05:16PM +0200, Marco 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&

These both behave as they should for me with 8.2.402. The former sees gvim wait for the command to exit; the latter returns immediately with both xcalc and gvim responsive.

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