Re: [vile] Cannot ':q"uit out of Windows7

[Stefan Caunter]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:55:12PM -0500, Stefan Caunter wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Gary Jennejohn
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I tried the 9.7z 32-bit winvile under Windows 7 RC running in VirtualBox
>> > under FreeBSD and :q works fine.
>>
>> I'm probably just using the vile97w32 from the home page; don't know
>> if that is the same.
>
> no - that's the _release_ (it has a vile.exe and winvile.exe), which
> is more than 2 years old.
>
> I have an installer for _current_ winvile also on the page.
>
> However, your report sounded like you were closing cmd.exe and then
> attempting to exit from vile.exe - very different from running winvile.exe

yes, vile.exe in cmd.exe

>
> vile.exe does open some console-window resources to run, and I'm guessing
> that cmd.exe is clobbering some part of that before you try to tell vile.exe
> to exit.  (In that case, you still should be able to hit it with the task
> manager).

I haven't looked for vile.exe in taskmgr.exe - I close cmd.exe with mouse.

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