[comp.emacs] Invoking GNU Emacs 18.53 from mail, rn, etc

rep@genrad.com (Pete Peterson) (01/04/90)

I recently updated our GNU Emacs from 18.52 to 18.53.  Everything appears
to work normally except that when you try to invoke Emacs from other 
programs such as mail, news, etc., you end up with the /tmp/WHATEVER file
created and an emacs in the "stopped" state and no sign on your screen
of an emacs.  Another application which starts up a SUN shellwindow in
which to run the Emacs displays the empty shell window with no output in
it.

Is there a known problem relating to this and a known fix/workaround
short of going back to 18.52?  I didn't want to wade through 5000 lines
of change log and little knowledge of the inner workings of either
Emacs or mail, etc. to try to find what may have introduced the problem.
Note that "emacsclient" and "server" work OK, but few of our users use
that mode.

The problem exists on both Sun 3 and Sun 4 running SUNOS 4.0.3.

If you have any suggestions, I'd appreciate a reply by mail.


	pete peterson
	rep@genrad.com
	{decvax,linus,wjh12,mit-eddie,masscomp}!genrad!rep

rep@genrad.UUCP (Pete Peterson) (01/04/90)

Additional information regarding my previous posting:

Executing the following script works fine:
#!/bin/csh -f
exec emacs

Executing the following script results in message: "Stopped (tty output)" :
#!/bin/csh -f
emacs

Note it's not in background and stty everything shows "-tostop" at any rate.

	pete peterson
	rep@genrad.com
	{decvax,linus,wjh12,mit-eddie,masscomp}!genrad!rep