Re: Hack for entering/exiting emacs

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From: Dave Sill
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 15:55

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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.

This would be `emacsclient', located in Emacs's etc directory.  Run M-x server-start
in your emacs before invoking emacsclient.

>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.

If MH is the only reason you want this capability, then you might want to use
Emacs's mh-mode instead.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support

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