nedit -server not working
Mark Jackson
mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu
Mon Feb 25 20:38:00 GMT 2013
On 2/14/2013 10:08 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 2/14/2013 9:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:16:47 -0500, Mark Jackson wrote:
>>> Since updating my (rather stale) Cygwin installation in late December I
>>> find that the server mode of nedit isn't working. Both "nc" (which I
>>> had been accustomed to using) and "nedit -server" open nedit as if the
>>> server flag were not there.
>>
>> How so?
>
> Normal behavior - at least as I have experienced it on SunOS and
> Solaris, and Cygwin until the December upgrade - is that the shell
> prompt returns, and subsequent invocations of "nc filename" open
> additional tabs in the nedit window created by the initial invocation.
>
> At present control is not returned to the shell. Launching nedit as a
> separate process by other means does not result in it acting as a server
> - that is, a subsequent "nc filename" launches a fresh nedit window.
OK, is *anyone* using nedit on Cygwin these days? If so, would you
please tell me whether server mode is working properly for you?
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