Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!gmdka!fuchs
From: fuchs@gmdka.UUCP (Harald Fuchs)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need Info: Server Mode
Message-ID: <263@gmdka.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 12:37:30 GMT
References: <3590013@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: fuchs@gmdka.UUCP (Harald Fuchs)
Organization: GMD Karlsruhe, W-Germany
Lines: 18

In article <3590013@hpindda.HP.COM>, rohit@hpindda.HP.COM (Rohit Aggarwal) says:
> Has anyone got gnu to work in the server mode on an ASCII 
> terminal?
> I changed gnu's .emacs file to start the server when I enter
> gnumacs and then I put gnu in the background.  Now when I
> try to run another application that uses the editor gnu I
> get the gnu server msg output stating the port number and
> then I get a line like "Waiting..... ".  

GNU Emacs must run in the foreground in order to be able to respond to an
emacsclient. This can be achieved by two means:
- Start up an Emacs subshell (M-x shell) and run your application there.
- Use X windows or something of the kind.

                               Harald Fuchs

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