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DECstation and command-line MH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Mon Oct 17 12:45:19 1994
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Cc: dryfoo@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:45:04 EDT
From: ""Reid M. Pinchback"" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
To clarify a couple of details on my suggestion#2, which was a little
too terse.
A. I'm not talking about use of emacsclient.
B. To verbosify what I mean by the problem with putting comp in the
background:
Before the current release:
1. From an Xterm type the command "comp"
2. Type ^Z in the Xterm
(at this point, you can't type into the "comp" window since
the task is suspended)
3. Type "bg" in the Xterm
(you can now type in the comp window)
4. Type "fg" in the Xterm
(you can now save the composed message, and type "send" in the Xterm).
With the current release, after you background the task with "bg"
you *can't* foreground it. If you try you just get the
message:
fg: No current job.
When you save the message you composed in emacs you get messages
written to the original Xterm:
What now?
but you have no way of foregrounding the task so that it can receive
the input from stdin. To send the message you have to do another
"comp", make it use the existing draft, and then send the message.
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Reid M. Pinchback
Faculty Liaison
Academic Computing Services, MIT
