It's working fine for me. That line is supposed to start a new fish shell
that runs 'leafpad' in the background. Fish immediately exits, but the
invoked program keeps running. Are you using some older version of Fish?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 09:04, Philipp Middendorf <pmid...@gmx.net> wrote:

> I don't know what that is supposed to do, but on my machine, it opens
> the program (in the foreground) and closes it when the terminal closes.
> This is not what I wanted to have. :)
>
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:48:26 +0900
> Maxim Gonchar <gma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > you do not need disown in fish, because fish do it automatically.
> > Just try the following fish -c 'leafpad&'
> >
> > regards,
> > Maxim
> >
> > On Monday 25 July 2011 23:48:53 Philipp Middendorf wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm currently migrating to fish from bash and there's one thing that
> > > bothers me: In bash, I often used the "disown" command to not just
> > > send a job into the background but to detach it from the shell
> > > _entirely_. This means that closing the terminal doesn't close the
> > > program. For instance:
> > >
> > > firefox &
> > > disown -a
> > > <close terminal>
> > >
> > > and I still have firefox open (-a to disown all background jobs).
> > >
> > > Is this possible in fish? I've found a mailing list post from 2008
> > > that received no ansers. I don't know if anything has changed
> > > since...
> > >
> > >   Regards
> > >     Philipp
> > >
> > >
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