adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) (03/16/89)
In article <1296@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes: .>In article <1908@randvax.UUCP> salzman@rand.org (Isaac Salzman) writes: .>>Hello netland! Does anyone really use Emacs as a login shell? .>>* Isaac J. Salzman ---- .> .>If it wern't for ksh, I might actually do that IF emacs had job .>control!! When you can't suspend or background or even cancel(!) a .>job, the shell mode isn't really usuable. .> .>Of course if I just havn't RTFM (I have, though) and there is a way to .>use job control, then please tell me. I do it all the time in GNU Emacs. (Actually, that's *did*. My current csh has no job control. Sigh.) What you do is C-C C-Z to suspend a job and then you can do the usually bg, fg... -- Adnan Yaqub Star Gate Technologies, 29300 Aurora Rd., Solon, OH, USA, +1 216 349 1860 ...uunet!abvax!sgtech!adnan