Re: [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Michael Tiernan wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden>
> To: "Gary Jennejohn" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:38:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself
>
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:31:34 -0400
> > Steven Lembark <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:04 +0100
> > > Gary Jennejohn <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I do not like this behavior because it screws up using xvile as the
> > > > external editor in my claws-mail setup.
> > >
> > > My Config / Ext Programs / Text editor is set to:
> > >
> > >     /opt/bin/xvile +fork %s
>
> > Is there any consensus on which setting should be used
> > in the app-defaults file?
>
> Would it be too ugly to make the default behavior stay as is to make it 
> easier on you *BUT* put the "fork-or-no-fork" flag in the system-wide or 
> user level vilerc file?
>
> This would give a user the ability to set the flag themselves in their 
> local (and easier to grok) rc file.

Perhaps (I'm not sure of the impact - right now, the X resources are read
and processed before .vilerc is read and processed).

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