Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: am I in background? Message-ID: <2185@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 04:32:05 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2185 Posted: Mon Nov 11 04:32:05 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 05:01:19 EST References: <3070@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 15 > Unfortunately, emacs doesn't benefit from this [running until ready > for input] since it does an ioctl on the terminal (which has similar > consequences) before it does all of its startup stuff (like reading the > profile). Fixable, and fixed even. Spencer Thomas did some work on Gosling Emacs long ago to make sure it did not ask for the terminal until it was ready to use it. Too bad the C shell does not do the same: Try `csh &' sometime to see if it will read your .cshrc before stopping. Nope. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu