Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the | > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with | > | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals | > | or do everything under X. | | > | Do you know what the problem is? | | > When you're running it in a terminal window you can't get it to | > suspend when you hit Ctrl+Z? | | Yes. | | > Is your suspend character set to Ctrl+Z? | | Yes. (I also verified this by doing the "stty -a", just to be sure.) | | The symptoms (gosh, wouldn't have been nice for me to include the symptoms | the first time) are different from those I would expect for a different, | or missing, suspend character. | | xemacs stops taking input, but won't start the shell. I can hit ^C a | couple of times and get xemacs' attention, but the only thing it'll let me | do is abort the edit and dump core (and it won't do the core dump because | the default core size, as set by ulimit, is 0, and I never remember to | change that before I run emacs.) | | This is under Debian 2.1 as most recently released, kernel V2.2.3, and | xemacs20-nomule-20.4-13. (FWIW, it also does this if I use the mule | executable, not that it should make any difference.) | | Is it possible that the .emacs or the .xemacs-options file has something | in it that could cause this behavior?
I suppose you could've somehow overridden the suspend-emacs function. Try that function manually, i.e., from within XEmacs do: M-x suspend-emacs and see what happens. Gary