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- From: jano@layla.RoBIN.de (Jan-Olaf Droese)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
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- Subject: strange behaviour of emacs
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- Message-ID: <93010216716@layla.RoBIN.de>
- Organization: JanO's Mathelabor
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 18:20:51 +0100
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- I just figured out some strange behaviour of emacs:
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- Whenever emacs is started from another application (tested with tin, rn,
- elm) pressing Control-G doesn't interrupt the running command, but instead
- interrupts emacs.
- Control is returned to the calling program (at least in some way, wait), so
- i.e. when posting an article from within tin after aborting an emacs-
- command I get 'quit edit post' in the bottom line. If I press edit now,
- I am able to edit my article again, BUT:
-
- emacs is still running. When I do a ps from another VC, there is one
- emacs sleeping in the background. Even if I quit the calling program, this
- copy of emacs doesn't get killed. It sleeps there, until I do a kill -9.
-
- Is this behaviour due to my quite old kernel (I can't update at the moment
- due to limited time & ftp access), or am I missing something else.
-
- SOFTWARE: .98.1 kernel, emacs 19.58 (as of SLS .98.1); tin, rn, elm
- compiled by myself, they are otherwise ok.
-
- Happy new year to all Linuxers,
-
- JanO
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