On 23 March 2010 14:09, Andrew Stewart wrote: > > I'd like to get MacVim to give focus to a MacRuby program, which > accepts some input from the user via a GUI and then returns the input > (and focus) back to MacVim. > > Right now I can get MacVim to execute a non-interactive Ruby program, > though when I try a console-based interactive Ruby program it simply > blocks MacVim indefinitely. I think this is because the Ruby is > trying to interact with the user via stdin, and there's no console as > such when the program is launched via MacVim. However I don't want to > get bogged down with this because my real aim is to interact with the > user via a MacRuby GUI. > > So I just wanted to ask, before I embark on this, is it feasible? If > so, what's the recommended way to launch another program and wait for > it to return something to MacVim?
To open some other GUI program you could use (from within MacVim): :!open -a ProgramName filename Maybe that's enough for your needs. As far as I know there is no universal way on Mac OS X to wait for a GUI app to finish (let alone return focus to the calling program). Björn -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vim_mac+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
