Re: [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself

[Paul Fox]

gary wrote:
 > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:32:55 -0400 (EDT)
 > Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Michael Tiernan wrote:
 > > 
 > > >
 > > > ----- Original Message -----
 > > > From: "Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden>
 > > > To: "Gary Jennejohn" <address@hidden>
 > > > Cc: address@hidden
 > > > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:38:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
 > > > Subject: Re: [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself
 > > >
 > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
 > > >
 > > >> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:31:34 -0400
 > > >> Steven Lembark <address@hidden> wrote:
 > > >>
 > > >>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:04 +0100
 > > >>> Gary Jennejohn <address@hidden> wrote:
 > > >>>
 > > >>>> I do not like this behavior because it screws up using xvile as the
 > > >>>> external editor in my claws-mail setup.
 > > >>>
 > > >>> My Config / Ext Programs / Text editor is set to:
 > > >>>
 > > >>>     /opt/bin/xvile +fork %s
 > > >>>
 > > >
 > > >> Is there any consensus on which setting should be used
 > > >> in the app-defaults file?
 > > >
 > > > Would it be too ugly to make the default behavior stay as is to make it 
 > > > easier on you *BUT* put the "fork-or-no-fork" flag in the system-wide or 
 > > > user level vilerc file?
 > > >
 > > > This would give a user the ability to set the flag themselves in their 
 > > > local (and easier to grok) rc file.
 > > 
 > > Perhaps (I'm not sure of the impact - right now, the X resources are read
 > > and processed before .vilerc is read and processed).
 > > 
 > 
 > I personally would prefer the forking to be off by default.  After all,
 > that was the behavior for years and years and never raised any protests :)
 > 

i don't use xvile, so i've only skimmed this thread, but also, isn't
it common for x apps not to fork?  if i start an xterm, for instance,
i have to background it myself.

paul
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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 32.9 degrees)