Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!heiser
From: heiser@ethz.UUCP (Gernot Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need Info: Server Mode
Message-ID: <313@bernina.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 15:48:46 GMT
References: <3590013@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: heiser@ethz.UUCP (Gernot Heiser)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <3590013@hpindda.HP.COM> rohit@hpindda.HP.COM (Rohit Aggarwal) writes:
>        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..... ".

The emacs server was ment to be used with a  window system. You can start Emacs
on one window, start  the emacs server,  and then in  a different window run an
application that uses the emacs server  (and hence your original  emacs running
in a different window) to edit.

The only ways to use  the server with  a normal  ASCII terminal is when you run
the application   from  the Emacs  shell window  or    from the  emacs terminal
emulator. Alternatively you  could (probably, I  never tried this) suspend your
application  after the  "Waiting.....   "  message   appeared, foreground  your
suspended emacs and edit.
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