I want to use jEdit as external editor for my e-mail client. When invoking an external editor my e-mail client creates a temporary file and then opens the editor with that file as the argument. Then when I am finished editing I need to close the editor to notify the parent process that I am done. However since I almost always have jEdit open I don't want to close it in full (I might have 5-10 other buffers open) when I am done writing my e-mail, just close the current buffer.

What I need is a switch to jEdit that starts a separate process, disconnected from the current running instance of jEdit. I have looked at the man page and seen -wait, -newview, -newplainview and other switches but no one seems to do what I need. Have I missed something or is this a missing feature I should report?

Thanks