11-09-2016
Why you would want to use anything instead of vi eludes me. ;-))
I suppose it is because gvim - graphically challenged vi-lookalike - detaches itself from the shell it is run in. Therefore the script continues to run instead of stopping until gvim exits. Use the -nofork option to prevent that.
I hope this helps.
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