Kill Vim instance on script exit or not? #20
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As discussed in #19, there's a lot of sense in providing an option to keep the spawned Vim around after the script has exited. Currently, this works with the :foreground => false option for gvim. It might be a good idea to look into providing similar functionality for headless vim. I also think it might make more sense to have a separate method instead to detach the vim instance from the spawning script.
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moll commentedon Aug 23, 2013
That's possibly not a good idea to do automatically. Given that it's most likely to happen via
at_exit, it might introduce race conditions if some code, like some test runners today do, runs in anat_exitblock. It'll fail if Vimrunner exits in anat_exitprior to that.AndrewRadev commentedon Aug 26, 2013
The Vim instance will be killed automatically upon process exit, since it's a child of that process (as far as I know). The issue discussed in #19 was whether we should make some way to detach the child process, so it stays behind after the script had finished. I don't think using
at_exitwould be necessary, unless I'm missing something.moll commentedon Aug 26, 2013
Aah, got it. And it does get killed as a child at the moment.