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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Server and Client
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Date: 29 Apr 88 12:48:02 GMT
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   Hmmm.  I wonder how difficult it would be to make things so that
   emacsclient automatically suspends its parent process and continues
   the server emacs...  Any ideas?

It will be very difficult indeed.  When the emacsclient suspends
itself, your shell will hear about it and expect to give you a new
prompt due to a normal job-stop.  Convincing the shell that something
else should be automatically considered the running foreground process
could be quite a neat trick.  About the only way to do it is to have
emacsclient stuff a "fg %emacs" command into the terminal data stream
via TIOCSTI - ugly and dangerous at best.

--Karl