Re: emacs weirdness


Subject: Re: emacs weirdness
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 10:45:03 MDT


Not to start a big rwar, but it's *supposed* to be wierd. It's Emacs, after
all. VI's even more so.

> So, I finally got a good install disk and it worked beautifully, thanks
> Terrasoft folks!
>
> Now, however, I have a bit of oddness that I can't quite figure out... I
> was poking around my new install, trying to put configurations back the
> way I had them (fstab, ppp stuff etc...). Right off the bat, I fired up
> emacs to edit my fstab file (emacs /etc/fstab &), and nothing happened. I
> hit return and I got a message like
> [2] Stopped emacs fstab
>
> I thought that was odd, but I decided to try and foreground it, so I typed
> fg, and it popped up in my xterm like I had no X-server running. So, I
> quit out and tried again, this time without the &. It popped right back up
> in the xterm instead of making a new window for itself. I did an env for
> the hell of it, and saw that term was indeed set to xterm and display was
> set to 0.0 . What could possibly have gone wrong that would make emacs not
> X aware? I am terribly puzzled...
>
> -Christopher

--
Sincerely,

Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing jrp@wvi.com



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