> This time Vim says ":!seamonkey www.example.com&xclock& which apparently > doesn't do anything. Pasting the URL into the Location bar gives
I bet you're in gvim, right, Tony? I expect you're encountering the "can't run processes in the background" problem that a number of users have commented on recently, and for that reason not seeing the exploit. In console Vim you will see it, or if you just do www.example.com&xclock which will wait for xclock to exit (close it!) before returning to Vim, rather than deallocating the pty as soon as control returns to vim, thus killing all the processes started by the command (both the browser and the clock--though if you already have Seamonkey open, the new process will just send it a message and exit, I believe, much like gvim --remote). Ben. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
