Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!bbn!gateway!NSWC-OAS.ARPA!dsill From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Restarting stopped emacs Message-ID: <29996@bbn.COM> Date: 23 Sep 88 12:22:56 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA Lines: 14 Terry V. Bushwrites: >[C-shell script for foregrounding or executing emacs as required.] I use almost the same approach, but I found an alias that does it faster. Here it is: alias em \ 'jobs >! /tmp/jobs$$; grep emacs /tmp/jobs$$ > /dev/null && fg %?emacs || \ /local/bin/emacs' ========= "Computers should work the way beginners expect them to, and one day they will." -- Ted Nelson