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In article <1990Nov10.172958.18656@engin.umich.edu> disser@caen.engin.umich.edu (David Disser) writes:

   I heard not too long ago about some program which could be invoked to bring
   a suspended Emacs process into the foreground, then let emacs be suspended
   again and give some sort of termination signal to the calling process
   without quitting Emacs.  I would like to use Emacs for editing MH mail
   messages, but it's too slow to constant start, exit, and re-start Emacs off
   the network.

There are several answers to your problem. First, yes there is such a thing
as long as you have job-controll. Then simply hit ^Z while running emacs
and it will be suspended. The command for bringing emacs back again varies
somewhat in syntax from shell to shell, but I would try "fg". If you mail
me what your shell is then I can tell you what the "fg" command is, or
ask your sysadmin.

Second, if you want to edit mh-messages and manipulate them from emacs,
you don't ever have to leave emacs. There is quite a nice mh-mode for
emacs which allows you to scan/read/write/reply/... messages almost
as flexibly as you would from the shell. I use it every day. Maybe it
already is on your system, but you don't know it. When you know there
are new messages try the command "mh-rmail" (i.e. first hit ESC-x then
enter "mh-rmail"). If you have it a new window should open which lists
your new messages. For a description for this mode try doing ^H-b for
a list of all commands or try the command "describe-mode".

        Carl Edman


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