[Bug 322023] Re: External command are broken in gvim started from menu

This is fixed by upstream patch 7.2.097. The Vim packages in Karmic and later include this patch. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- External command are broken in gvim started from menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322023 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 322023] Re: External command are broken in gvim started from menu

I can't reproduce the bug in 9.10 anymore. Regarding it seems to be an upstream bug. Seems to be fixed in vim-7.2. However I could not find a corresponding bug report/patch on the vim-dev list. -- External command are broken in gvim started from menu https://bugs.

[Bug 322023] Re: External command are broken in gvim started from menu

The -f option is required to allow programs to invoke gvim and wait for the user to exit gvim, as you can see from . Without the -f, gvim immediately forks, thus returning control back to whatever process spawned it. There are many other ways to start programs other