Hi, recently an issue popped up opening PDF files from within gvim. I used this configuration for years and it worked flawlessly. But recently something has changed (in vim's behaviour, I guess).
I have several mappings that open external files (some blocking, some non-blocking). And the non-blocking ones don't work any more in gvim. The processes get killed immediately. Removing all the vim commands, it boils down to the following examples (using xcalc as an example here): " this works, it opens the calculator and upon closing the calculator gvim " continues :!xcalc " this opens the calculator and immediately quits and returns to gvim, in the " past it kept the process running :!xcalc& Did something change in vim regarding opening external processes? How can I restore the old behaviour? Or more importantly: How can I open external processes in a non-blocking way? Debian-testing VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Mar 24 2020 03:21:40) Included patches: 1-439 Marco -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20200402210516.049af193%40homerow.