[18396] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.4.14: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Oct 11 18:16:33 2000
Message-Id: <200010112216.SAA04010@w20-575-37.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:16:21 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-37.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.4.14
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
(that would be sawfish...I wonder how sendbug
tries to detect my wm...it must be
incompatible with Gnome's sensibilities.)
> What were you trying to do?
Use the command "emacs -nw" instead of "emacs" as editor for nmh messages.
I put the following in ~/.mh_profile:
---
Path: Mail
Editor: /mit/beland/.emacs.tty
Msg-Protect: 600
Folder-Protect: 700
Prompter-next: emacs
rmmproc: delete
draft-folder: drafts
unseen-sequence: unseen
AliasFile: /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/b/e/beland/.mh_aliases
Signature: Christopher D. Beland
---
---
#!/bin/athena/tcsh -f
/usr/athena/bin/emacs -nw $1
---
#!/bin/sh
sh -c "/usr/athena/bin/emacs -nw $@"
---
> What's wrong:
Emacs hangs when invoked in this way. It does not hang if I run the
script with "source .emacs.tty" from the prompt, or run the script
line-by-line at the prompt. It also does not hang when invoked inside
gdb in .emacs.tty.
This does not happen when I run "/usr/bin/emacs -nw",
"/usr/bin/emacs-nox" or "/mit/emacs/bin/emacs -nw" instead of
"/usr/athena/bin/emacs -nw" (though of course mh mode does not
initialize normally).
I have no hanging problems under Athena-Solaris 8.4.14.
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Path Emacs version
/usr/athena/bin/emacs 20.3.1
/usr/bin/emacs 20.7.1
/mit/emacs/bin/emacs 20.6.1
-B.
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Christopher Beland - http://web.mit.edu/beland/www/contact.html
MIT STS/Course 6 (EECS) - MIT Athena User Interface Project
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