Re: [rox-users] std{in,out,err} weirdness revisted.

[Keith R. J. W. <kr...@op...>]

* Keith R. John Warno <kr...@op...> [28/07/2003 0212EDT]:
[...]
> Somewhere around ROX-Session 0.1.19 a change was made to have stdin and
> stdout redirected from/to /dev/null else the X server gets angry when apps
> that wish to receive console input (or write to the console) are
> launched via ROX-Filer.  This seemed to work well with every such app I
> tried to break ROX-{Session,Filer} and the X server with.  :))  For
> example, whilst running your WM and ROX-Filer under ROX-Session, try
> this at the shell:
[...]

Hrmm. This was not the fault of ROX.  Apparently vim misbehaves when
certain vim options are set and std{in,out} is not to a terminal.

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