From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to run --daemon in foreground? Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:19:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20161029151559.GB30693@protected.rcdrun.com> <20161030153451214174078@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477873353 17657 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2016 00:22:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:22:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 31 01:22:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c10Mo-00033Z-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2016 01:22:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c10Mr-0003eq-56 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:22:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c10K1-00025R-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c10K0-0002ZC-Px for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c10Jy-0002Yi-WE; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c10Jy-0004Po-Go; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:19:26 -0400 X-Spook: Malware Uzbekistan Small Pox CBP Shelter-in-place X-Ran: i1sOm5Zo&<@}!6Zu_mLl|%VyFtLL1gQVP:&lfRYJQ`0?=yv:7tMyMXOcW~iO,Tg24!vdfu X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:01:12 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111640 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Actually, it should be possible to use a foreground process without > a tty by using "emacs --batch". IIUC it will require fiddling to make > it work right, but it's be good if someone could try it and report its > experience (e.g. in the form of a bug-report). There's a 7-year old bug report with a simple patch to add equivalent functionality. https://debbugs.gnu.org/4944 It seems to me like a feature Emacs should have.