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From: nelson@ishmael
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Bug (?) in emacs server
Message-ID: <123800003@ishmael>
Date: 18 Jan 89 22:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ishmael!nelson    Jan 18 17:00:00 1989


> The problem that
> I've found is that when I use emacsclient, and change the mode of the
> buffer (say, from Fundamental to Text for editing mail), emacs forgets
> that that buffer was a server buffer, and so C-x # does nothing, and
> the only way I've found to let the client continue on is to exit
> emacs.

Hey, thanks for figuring this out.  I used to wonder why it would
sporadically "hang" on me, and I never made the correlation to mode
change.  

Inspired by your discovery, I played around with some server commands
and found that the command M-x server-start will have the (side?) effect of
returning control to the caller with all of your buffer intact.  (Same
effect as C-x #).  (At least it worked the one time I tried it).

Not a pretty solution, but it appears to work.  I agree that the
server mode shouldn't be lost in the first place.

  - Nelson

Nelson Lerner         uunet!inmet!nelson       nelson@inmet.inmet.com