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From: mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: Suspending Emacs in a shelltool
Message-ID: <39@octel.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 20:43:24 GMT
References: <8909030902.AA03052@purina>
Reply-To: mike@octel.UUCP (Mike Crawford)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Octel Communications Corporation
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In article <8909030902.AA03052@purina> squash@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
>(Running version 18.51.1 of  GNU Emacs.)
>
>[NB.  I think I am reporting a possible defect in Suntools, not a bug in Emacs.]
>
>If, when in Emacs, I accidentally hit C-z (bound to suspend-emacs) my cursor
>jumps to the minibuffer location of the Shelltool window and the Shelltool
>window seems dead (it echos keyboard input, but seems to execute no commands:
> C-q  and  C-]  and  M-x  do nothing other than echo.)
>	The only way out that I have found is to kill the window (using the
>mouse to pull down the Quit command) and call my shelltool again.  

I have had the same problem.  Note that emacstool runs emacs as a subprocess.
Use ps to find the process ID (pid) of the emacs (not emacstool) process, and 
use the command

kill -CONT pid

to make it continue.  I agree that emacs ought to have a flag to disable the
suspend-emacs key binding when under a window system.
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