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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!not-for-mail From: philsuth@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Phil Sutherland) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD + elm + emacs = frustration Date: 8 Feb 1994 08:05:50 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 27 Sender: philsuth@perth.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <2j6l0u$qia$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: perth.dialix.oz.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 (NOV) I finally took the plunge and updated my old 386bsd system to the Walnut Creek CD-ROM edition of FreeBSD. Overall, it's a great improvement, but..... I've installed both the elm 2.4pl23beta and the emacs 19.19 from the cdrom packages distribution, and they don't seem to want to inter-operate. In other words, I cannot use emacs as my mail editor from elm. Elm seems to start invoking the editor OK, but once emacs is loaded and starts, a message like "Stopped-tty output" is quickly flashed, and the Elm pre-send menu is displayed. I've done the obvious things like recompiling emacs, and playing with the syscall.c module in elm, but so far to no avail. Any ideas out there? /usr/bin/vi is not an option (although it works), and I'm not really happy about shifting to uemacs or jed as a mail editor. phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Sutherland Perth, Western Australia philsuth@DIALix.oz.au