[comp.emacs] Restarting stopped emacs

jym@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Jym Dyer) (09/09/88)

Here's a single alias:

	alias e 'alias e %emacs; emacs'

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dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill) (09/23/88)

Terry V. Bush <silvlis.UUCP!tvb%eddie.mit.edu.uucp@bbn.com> writes:
>[C-shell script for foregrounding or executing emacs as required.]

I use almost the same approach, but I found an alias that does it
faster.  Here it is:

alias em \
'jobs >! /tmp/jobs$$; grep emacs /tmp/jobs$$ > /dev/null && fg %?emacs || \
 /local/bin/emacs'

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