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From: gengler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: 18.53.1 as default editor?
Message-ID: <40600003@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 15:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!gengler    May 23 10:59:00 1989



Well, I'm frustrated.  I'm far from being an expert in Emacs
and I need to help someone with a "problem."  

This guy wants to have emacs be his default editor (from Notes
specifically, but I'm also having trouble with it as general Unix
default too).  From the documentation, I simply set the
environment variable NFED (EDITOR, too) to the path for
emacs.

Here's what strange (too me at least).  On one machine, we're
running ver 18.51 and things work just fine.  But on this guys
machines we're running 18.53.1.  When the utility tries to start
up Emacs, it stops.  I mean that the process gets stopped.
I can look at the ps list and see that both notes and emacs are
there.  (or both mail and emacs, if I'm trying to the general
Unix default)  

Or, the other specs:
  18.51 is running on a Convex
  18.53.1 is running on a Pyramid

(Would this problem be solved with just getting version 18.54???)
Any help would be *most* appreciated.

Ken
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