Re: [vile] How can I run xvile like "gvim -f"?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 01:31:11PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 01:06:47PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I am invoking xvile from a firefox extension (textern if anyone is
> > interested, it's a replacement for "It's all text" which doesn't work
> > on Firefox 57 or newer).
> > 
> > For this to work xvile needs to stay in the foreground when invoked,
> > i.e. it needs to to what gvim does with "gvim -f".  Is there any way
> > to get it to do this or will I need some sort of wrapper?
> > 
> To be more explicit I need xvile to not detach from the calling
> process.  This is so that the caller blocks until xvile exits.
> 
... and even more, 'xvile +fork' doesn't seem to do what I need. 
'gvim -f' works, 'xvile +fork' doesn't work.

Help!?

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Chris Green