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From: sethr@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Query: Interesting Applications of Emacs
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Date: 14 Mar 89 15:28:39 GMT
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In article <1908@randvax.UUCP> salzman@rand.org (Isaac Salzman) writes:
>Hello netland! Does anyone really use Emacs as a login shell?
>* Isaac J. Salzman                                            ----     

If it wern't for ksh, I might actually do that IF emacs had job
control!!  When you can't suspend or background or even cancel(!) a
job, the shell mode isn't really usuable.

Of course if I just havn't RTFM (I have, though) and there is a way to
use job control, then please tell me.


						-Seth
						 seth@ctr.columbia.edu