Re: Configuration Point & Click

[David Wright]

On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 02:03:47 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote:
> foxfanfare wrote
> > That is the reason why I call zathura from within vim. But I understand
> > your
> > point and where the problem is. As zathura and vim are sharing the same
> > terminal, lilypond-invoke-editor message from zathura will appear in my
> > vim
> > file...
> > 
> > So it would seem a better way to configure that would be to set a shortcut
> > which first opens a new terminal and then launch zathura within... I'll
> > try
> > to figure this out, right now I don't know how to achieve that...
> 
> After a lot of experiments, I think I found the correct way to manage it.
> Here is my new configuration in lilypond.vim 
> 
> " <F6>  view pdf with zathura 
> map <buffer> <F6> :!i3-sensible-terminal -e nohup zathura "%<.pdf" &
> exit<Return><Return>
> 
> Now vim opens a new terminal (i3-sensible-terminal could be replaced by
> whatever terminal you use) and launch zathura in it before closing it. Now
> messages from zathura are not interfering with the original ly file.
> Everything works as expected! The only little annoying thing is that a new
> file called nohup.out is created in the home directory. I guess it may be
> common in linux, I'm not used to that, I personally don't like to see a lot
> of files or folders I haven't created in my home directory...

Pretty much the same answer as my previous email, but this time use
1> (more frequently known as just >) to redirect to the file of your
choice, or >> if multiple instances are heading for the same file.
man nohup   explains this for the former case (one instance).

> So, I think I finally managed to get working correctly Point & Click in vim,
> thought it wasn't as easy as I would have expected... Thank you everyone who
> helped me solving that issue, especially Federico and David for the time
> they spent trying to replicate my problem and helped me figuring it out!

Great.

Cheers,
David.