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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUemacs server/client mode
Message-ID: <7974@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 20 Mar 89 20:39:49 GMT
References: <11336369@GNB.89Mar7151044@melba.bby.oz> <132500001@cdp>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <132500001@cdp> scott@cdp.UUCP writes:
>
>Is it possible to use emacs server/client mode with shl in
>System V Release 3?  I'd like to have an emacs in one shell
>layer, and access it with emacsclient in the other layers.
>I tried to use SYSVIPC and emacsclient hung waiting to
>talk to emacs (if I remember correctly).  I'm using 18.52
>on release 3.0 for the '386.

I tried this but could not switch out of the emacs layer.  Emacs
seems to disable the switch character and intercept ^Z to run
a non-interactive subshell.  You can start an interactive shell
and invoke emacsclient there, then emacs will just switch buffers
and load the file in the new buffer.  When you type ctl-x# you
are switched back to the shell buffer and the emacsclient will
exit.  The IPC mechanism should work with shl if you could persuade
emacs to leave the switch character alone (but then you have to
pick a control character to steal from the emacs commands).