Re: [vile] Console hang on exit (Win32)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Rick Sladkey wrote:

> My vile friends,
>
> I just got a new Windows 7 64-bit laptop and I've run into a serious
> problem with the console version of vile 9.7.  If I just open a
> command prompt window, run "vile.exe @nul" to defeat my vile.rc,
> vile opens normally.  However if I exit vile with ":q<RET>" the
> console hangs.  The display still shows the vile screen text including
> the status line and ": q" on the last line.  Task manager shows that
> vile.exe is no longer running.  I then have to terminate the console
> window.
>
> I admit I've been experiencing a related bug on Windows XP 32-bit for
> quite some time but I could never find the time to investigate it and I
> simply avoided the cirumstances that lead to it.  Perhaps it can be
> reproduced more easily than my Windows 7 issue:

thanks - I'll try that (soon as I'm done with my current edit/debug 
issue).  I've been working to setup a multiboot for Windows 7 with other
stuff which isn't going well...

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