*- On 16 Aug, David Teague wrote about "xemacs at console won't suspend" > Hi Folks > > The subject says it all. xemacs, when invoked as xemacs at the > console -- not in X -- refuses to suspend with a Control-z in a > usable way. The keyboard driver continues to respond to keystrokes > and echos them, but no keystroke kills what ever remains running > after attempting to suspend xemacs. I can kill it from anther > console. > > If I telnet into the machine, the behavior is what I want: xemacs > suspends with Control-z exactly like emacs does. I can even telnet > to local host and get the desired behavior. > > The necessity to remember this quirk when I move from other machines > where emacs is installed is annoying. I really don't want to install > emacs and xemacs, that would be a waste of disk space:) > > I've looked at the environment in each case, and don't see any > difference that I understand to be significant. > > Would someone please tell me how to make xemacs running in text mode > suspend as emacs always does and xemacs does when I'm connected to > the machine via telnet? >
This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before starting xemacs on the console. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several VERY OLD bugs on this subject. I think someone had submitted a patch but for some reason it has never been fixed. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
