Mike Williams wrote: > Hi, > > For a while now when I start gvim, the command prompt window that also > gets created is left active. That is, it appears as a window I can > cycle through, and if I close it, it takes out gvim with it. This > doesn't happen all the time but it is not rare. > > This is with 7.1.46 built with VC8. I have a custom makefile (the one > that knocked around the dev lists prior to 7.1 but never got rolled into > the sources) but I have seen the same with the stock makefile. > > I am happy to try and debug this but any inisghts, or at least pointers > to what code to look at that should be killing the command prompt window > would be appreciated. > > TTFN > > Mike
How do you start gvim? If you start gvim.exe by launching the binary directly from Start => Execute or from a desktop icon, there should be no command prompt window. If you start gvim.exe by typing its name at the command prompt, it should detach itself from the command window and leave it free to do other tasks (the prompt should revert). When I was on Windows, I left cmd.exe open from bootup to shutdown, so I don't know what would happen to child processes if that window were closed. If you use a gvim.bat wrapper script, what happens could depend of whether the script launches gvim.exe directly or via a "start" command (and in the latter case, with which arguments to "start"). Best regards, Tony. -- A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
