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From: adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Job Control in GNU Emacs (was Re: Query: Interesting Applications of Emacs)
Summary: Yes, it does exist.
Message-ID: <487@sgtech.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 21:34:14 GMT
References: <1908@randvax.UUCP> <1296@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub)
Organization: Star Gate Technologies, Inc., Solon, Ohio, USA
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In article <1296@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:
.>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.

I do it all the time in GNU Emacs.  (Actually, that's *did*.  My
current csh has no job control.  Sigh.)  What you do is C-C C-Z to
suspend a job and then you can do the usually bg, fg...



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