Emacs Trouble (was Re: The GNU thing)
Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> writes:
| On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| > Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> writes:
|
| > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
| > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
| > | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals
| > | or do everything under X.
|
| > | Do you know what the problem is?
|
| > When you're running it in a terminal window you can't get it to
| > suspend when you hit Ctrl+Z?
|
| Yes.
|
| > Is your suspend character set to Ctrl+Z?
|
| Yes. (I also verified this by doing the "stty -a", just to be sure.)
|
| The symptoms (gosh, wouldn't have been nice for me to include the symptoms
| the first time) are different from those I would expect for a different,
| or missing, suspend character.
|
| xemacs stops taking input, but won't start the shell. I can hit ^C a
| couple of times and get xemacs' attention, but the only thing it'll let me
| do is abort the edit and dump core (and it won't do the core dump because
| the default core size, as set by ulimit, is 0, and I never remember to
| change that before I run emacs.)
|
| This is under Debian 2.1 as most recently released, kernel V2.2.3, and
| xemacs20-nomule-20.4-13. (FWIW, it also does this if I use the mule
| executable, not that it should make any difference.)
|
| Is it possible that the .emacs or the .xemacs-options file has something
| in it that could cause this behavior?
I suppose you could've somehow overridden the suspend-emacs
function. Try that function manually, i.e., from within XEmacs do:
M-x suspend-emacs
and see what happens.
Gary
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