Re: Opening MacVim from Applescript

2011-11-24 Thread Brendan
Ah thanks for that, it works now. This did confuse me though since I didn't think mvim generated any halting output i.e. prompts etc. I did also try to 'background' the process at an earlier stage using an ampersand at the end of the command but that didn't work for some reason. Kind regards, Bre

Re: Opening MacVim from Applescript

2011-11-22 Thread Janusz Bossy
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Sylvain Soliman wrote: > I answered there since it is not really MacVim specific... > > TL;DR: mvim's stdout and stderr must be redirected to /dev/null in order to > have the AppleScript let mvim be "backgrounded" You can also right click any file in that director

Re: Opening MacVim from Applescript

2011-11-22 Thread Sylvain Soliman
* Brendan : > The question was posted at Stackoverflow but I didn't get any joy > there yet, the links is ... > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8213712/opening-macvim-from-applescript I answered there since it is not really MacVim specific... TL;DR: mvim's std

Opening MacVim from Applescript

2011-11-22 Thread Brendan
The question was posted at Stackoverflow but I didn't get any joy there yet, the links is ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8213712/opening-macvim-from-applescript In summary I'd like to put an Applescript in the Finder toolbar that when clicked opens a new MacVim window in the di