alan@metasoft.UUCP (Alan Epstein) (05/30/89)
i have encountered an anomaly which i hope someone can explain. almost all users here are running csh, and having no problem running emacs (including under X). the problem showed up after i installed v18.53, when programs like mail and postnews, which run the program named in the EDITOR or VISUAL variables, began to hang when emacs was named. emacs is in fact running (ps tells me so), but it fails to changed the screen or accept input or commands. BTW, vi executes fine in this circumstance. when mail tries to run an editor, it first starts a 'sh'. this appears to be the problem, because usually when i run a shell from csh, and then run emacs, i get the same behavior. my theory is that the terminal is not setup when emacs is ready to run under sh. if this is the case, why did this used to work, and how can the terminal be setup by these programs? if this is not the answer, what is? PLEASE SEND REPLIES VIA E-MAIL. thanks. ----------------------------- Alan Epstein Meta Software Corp UUCP: ...bbn!metasoft!alan 150 Cambridgepark Dr Internet/ARPA: alan%metasoft@bbn.com Cambridge, MA 02140 USA -----------------------------