Re: [Gretl-devel] append and sleep
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> Next questions: Is there a useful role for a non-waiting
> variant of "!" on Linux? Which should be the default, waiting
> or non-waiting?
Waiting!
Yes, that's the right answer ;-)
Here's what now _in_ CVS/Windows snapshot. On both Linux and
Windows the default behaviour for "! foo" commands is synchronous
execution. Well, that's tested on Linux; it's "supposed to work"
that way on Windows but is untested.
I've scrapped the "set shell_sync" option, but have added an
alias, namely "launch", for "!" which induces async operation.
For example, in the gretl console:
! gedit
starts gedit; gretl doesn't do anything and is non-responsive
until you exit gedit. But
launch gedit
starts gedit and the console prompt reappears immediately.
Allin