Re: gnotes+ editor strangeness

[Andy Kahn <kahn zk3 dec com>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 12:50:39PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
...
> some programs (eg, CVS) this can be worked around by specifying a "don't fork"
> option to the editor as part of the EDITOR environment variable; however, some
> seem to use the environment variable as a program _name_ and therefore
> try to exec the program "gvim -f".  This is broken, but it still has to be
> taken into consideration.
...

hmm, you have a very good point here.  these programs truly are
"broken" (in a sense), so it's a good compromise to have the
expected behavior to NOT fork to the background automatically.

anyhow, this is reasonable enough; the next version will have the
behavior change.
--andy