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"After last window closes" setting ignored #1338
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The current version of MacVim (9.0.472) seems to be ignoring the setting for "After last window closes" when set to "Quit MacVim". After I quit all editor windows, MacVim remains open. I'm on a Mac M1 Max running Monterey 12.5.1, if it helps.
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ychin commentedon Nov 4, 2022
What are you other settings? In particular, what's your setting on "Open untitled window"? #1257 made a change so that you cannot have both "Open untitled window" = "never", and "After last window closes" = "Quit MacVim". If you think about these two settings they kind of don't make any sense together. If you try to set them in the settings pane, setting one should automatically change the other one to something else now.
GT-GH commentedon Nov 4, 2022
You're right, that was the issue. Thank you!
Still, I don't think that change makes sense and I hope you consider rolling it back. These settings DO make sense together. The "Open untitled window" setting should only be checked on launch (and a new window opened if needed). The "After last window closes" setting should only be checked after at least one window had been actively closed by the user (i.e., not on launch).
I practically never need a new/blank document to open on launch, it only adds an unnecessary step to my process. On the other hand, I don't want a zombie process lingering after I'm done editing my last file.
ychin commentedon Nov 4, 2022
Hmm, I see. I didn't think this was actually a real use case, but I can consider addressing it. It likely won't be a direct rollback since the previous implementation was buggy (just opening and closing "About MacVim" would randomly quit the app. In fact I can see this behavior in iTerm as well) and macOS-behavior-specific but I can try to make it only start to activate the "After last window closes" after the first window has showed up.
GT-GH commentedon Nov 4, 2022
I appreciate it very much, and thank you also for providing this excellent editor on the Mac platform!
Revert "Fix bad interaction with never opening window + terminate on …
Allow never opening window + terminate on last window, with guards
ychin commentedon Nov 5, 2022
Ok #1339 will address this. This should be part of the next release (r175) which I hope would be out soon-ish but some other issues are preventing it so working on those.
Allow never opening window + terminate on last window, with guards
MacVim Release 176