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From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD emacs oddness
Date: 5 May 1996 02:22:19 -0700
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
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 In article <DquzzJ.IEJ.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org>,
 Thomas Unger <unger@raindrop.seaslug.org> wrote:
 >In article <4mcmd0$5uu@itchy.serv.net>, Sean T. Lamont <me> wrote
 >>- it leaves emacs running in the foreground
 >>- it returns control to the parent process (??????)
 >I don't have a fix but I'll confirm that I've seen the same thing.
 >But only when you run emacs within the xterm window of the parent
 >process.  Not the perfect solution but if you let emacs open it's own
 >window everything works.


Thanks. Unfortunately, this doesn't work too well for
dialup shell!



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