On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Troy Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Lennart Borgman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 2011/1/10 Jason Rumney <[email protected]>: >> > On 10/01/2011 05:43, Lennart Borgman wrote: >> > >> > >> > Which programs are these? I am not aware of any programs that have a >> > problem if the external editor which they launch does not terminate >> > until the user is finished editing. I do know that not waiting causes >> > problems for many programs which use termination of the editor they >> > spawned to mean the file they requested to be edited is ready. >> >> Hm, forgotten at the moment. I think I have seen this in either "it's >> all text" for firefox or the corresponding support for google chrome. >> Or was it the downloaded page (C-j) in google chrome that did not >> permit adding a parameter. I think at leas the last one. >> > > Command line versions of tools like CVS and SVN usually expect that the file > is done being editted when the editor command returns. > If you need to not wait and cannot set parameters, it is fairly simple to > still pass the flag. Just create a .bat file with the contents > emacsclientw --no-wait %1 > and use the batch file as the editor command. > Troy
That leaves a cmd.exe window hanging around until you have finished editing. So it is not something I like
