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From: mrd@SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU ("Michael R. DeCorte")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: alias for emacs
Message-ID: <8801131531.AA14350@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 88 15:31:46 GMT
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A little while ago someone asked for an alias that would either
execute emacs or if emacs was in the background do an fg on it.  This
is an improved version of the one I had sent in then.  This only calls
ps and sed.  It used to call tail and egrep also.  To use it just pop
the line below into your .cshrc and instead of typing emacs you have
to type gnu.  If you really want to type emacs you can modify the
script and substitue the 'emacs' on the end with the actual path of
your emacs.  So instead of 'emacs' you would have say
'/usr/local/bin/emacs'.  Then you could call the alias emacs instead.

alias gnu 		'eval `ps | sed -e "s/.*[e]macs.*/fg %/" -e "t" -e "d" `'emacs''


Michael DeCorte
mrd@clutx.clarkson.edu
mrd@clutx.bitnet