On 25 March 2010 19:10, Peter Palmreuther wrote: > Am 24.03.10 22:32, schrieb björn: >> 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). > > I don't know about OS X < 10.6, but over here 'man open' gives > > [...] > -W Causes open to wait until the applications it opens > (or that were already open) have exited. [...] > > And 'open -a MacVim -W file.txt' in fact gives focus to running MacVim > instance and opens 'file.txt' in a new tab. After quitting MacVim terminal > (iTerm) prompt returns to 'input state'.
Thanks Peter for pointing that out -- I was not aware of this flag. 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.
