Re: Another question: forking

On 2010-11-30, Charles Campbell wrote:
> John Little wrote:
> >
> >On Nov 29, 3:57 pm, arrom...@rahul.net (Ken Arromdee) wrote:
> >
> >>gvim used to fork and run in the background. 7.2 doesn't seem to do this.
> >>
> >Well, it does for most. How are you invoking gvim? I'd suspect an
> >alias or script getting in the way.
> >
>
> Try
>
> gvim -u NONE

...

> That'll be a start at tracking down the cause of your difficulty.

Also, you may want to use the full path name to gvim (e.g.,
/usr/bin/gvim) to avoid local scripts, functions or aliases.

$ which -a gvim

will show you all the gvims in your PATH (and maybe aliases and
functions, too, depending on the definition of your 'which').

HTH,
Gary

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