Re: buzzed shell while running external editors

On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:40 AM, John Ellis wrote:

>>   I'm trying to use gqview on mac os x tiger, v10.4.2. Everything
>> seems to work properly except of extenal editors handling. When I run
>> jpegtran as an editor (like it is configured by default), gqview
>> executes the command, the jpegtran does its job, but does not return
>> control to gqview back, I see the grey "close" button and gqview
>> thinks that the external editor is still running.
> Try adding "; exit" to the commands that hang to specifically  
> request that the
> shell process quit when the script completes.

   I've added ;exit to the commands running and to the shell script  
i'm trying to run as external editor - no effect :(

> Or perhaps the command is hung waiting for input from the command  
> line,
> sometimes a command will appear to hang if it is waiting for input.  
> The only fix
> for this is to call the command in a way that does not initiate or  
> disables
> prompting for input (... or redirects needed data to the  
> problematic command's
> standard input).

   If I run the command from my ordinary shell it asks no input.

-- 
ryzh-uanic



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