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

[Paul Fox]

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 > Chris Green writes:
 > >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.
 > 
 > I guess I don't understand what you're asking.  When I run xvile,
 > the program stays in the foreground and the shell waits for the
 > program to end.  If that's what you're asking for, then as far as I
 > can tell, the answer is "It does that by default."

i just said the same thing privately to chris -- forgot to cc: the list.

paul

 > 
 > If your Firefox extension is doing something unusual, then perhaps you
 > need to address your question to the author of the Firefox extension.
 > https://github.com/jlebon/textern has some suggestions also.
 > 
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