Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU!rms From: rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Mode line problem Message-ID: <8902211109.AA00446@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Date: 21 Feb 89 11:09:33 GMT References: <3519@xyzzy.UUCP> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 12 I had similar problems running Emacs on a vt200 emulation terminal. You have two options (that I can think of right now): 1) define `kill-emacs-hook' and `suspend-resume-hook' which are called That is not solving the problem; that is papering it over. Emacs is supposed to turn off standout mode when it exits. As far as I personally can see, it does so properly. If the latest version sometimes fails to do so, someone who can reproduce the problem should debug why the existing code fails and should tell me where the error is.