Re: job_start mswindows gui application not hidden

Ni Va wrote:

> Regarding the help's job_start,
>
> On MS-Windows, job_start() makes a GUI application hidden. If
> want to show it, Use |:!start| instead.
>
>
> I've tried that from a gvim instance :
> echo job_start([$vimruntime."/gvim.exe", "-c", "echo 'world'"])
>
> And I well see a new instance appear with the good message displayed.

Have you tried another GUI command? Vim probably brings itself to the
foreground, since it's an interactive application.

> So, it's not a crucial problem because I needed to job_start an
> instance of gvim in order to just modify file content by regexp. (if u
> have another easier way I'll take it)
>
> I just would like to know how to set the fact that the executable is
> hidden or shown ?

I believe the default is hidden, but an application may change that on
startup. With Vim you can try adding "/min" (the documentation for this
is old, not sure if it still works).

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