Re: [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:51 -0500 (EST)
> > Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Eric Krohn wrote:
> > >
> > > > Gary,
> > > >
> > > > That annoyed me at first, but there is an easier way around it than
> > > > hacking the code.
> > > >
> > > > xvile +fork
> > > >
> > > > +fork/-fork are not in the manual page (at least not in the Debian 9.7x-2
> > > > package on Linux), but it does show up if you run xvile -? and it is in
> > > > vile's help file (ctl-A h).
> > >
> > > The resource is forkOnStartup (I don't recall changing it - assume we're
> > > talking about the side-effects of installing the app-defaults file).
> >
> > Yup, that does it.  Thanks.
> >
> > After searching for fork in :help I see that it's well documented.
> >
> > I was surprised by this, to me new, behavior because I never saw it
> > before installing 9.7za.
>
> That's because the app-defaults file (from 1999) sets the resource to true, 
> while the compiled-in default is false.  But it's only recently that I added 
> makefile rules to install that.

...along that line, the only time I pay attention to the (command-line) 
option is for debugging.

I can change the resource file of course - so I'm curious if there are
many people happy with the current setting.

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