On 22 February 2012 13:06, H. S. Teoh <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:39:01AM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > [...] >> Yeah, though I've only seen it suggested for daemon like >> programs... I think you're the first person who I've seen >> suggest it for gui apps too. >> >> Not a bad idea. > > Perhaps I'm just dreaming, but I *think* I've seen one GUI app that > actually does that. But I could be wrong. > > > T
GVim does it, its amazing, since I normally start it from the terminal and chronically forget to use '&'. The one downside of this is when you /want/ the blocking behaviour (git editor for example), gvim gets around this by providing a '-f' flag that tells it not to fork. I wish all GUI programs provided that kind of feature set, but I concede that GVim is made /for/ programmers and launching from the terminal is a common use case, as is wanting to use it as a drop in replacement for vim, so here we are. -- James Miller