From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Pennebaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.windows Subject: bug#13850: Emacs for Windows: Launch better from a command prompt Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:49:57 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=90e6ba6e835870033304d6e32688 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362171197 32283 80.91.229.3 (1 Mar 2013 20:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:53:17 +0000 (UTC) To: 13850@debbugs.gnu.org, help-emacs-windows@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 01 21:53:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWxJ-00022D-Rl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:53:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwy-0006di-QI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwt-0006bk-Vy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:53:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwt-0004jR-0G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:59 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWws-0004jN-TG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWyr-00048e-Qu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:55:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andrew Pennebaker Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 13850 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: Emacs Bugs , help-emacs-windows@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.136217127115859 (code B ref -1); Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Mar 2013 20:54:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58638 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWyM-00047j-EQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:54:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49279) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWyJ-00047b-L8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwI-0004fY-87 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:47114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwI-0004fU-4q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwH-0006N9-4H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwG-0004fD-4l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ie0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::229]:32989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBWwF-0004f5-W9; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 13so4146835iea.28 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:52:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=qmz041nUN+rndeCUvkFdrU86e2XSxn3QKexF87J6D0U=; b=UMvFmoXv/idv4u/h7p63MQVGjH+YzVMHFoONGaZ8uzsUcKijQhBpYQ3W2K+EQ9x3J0 X3so1aHNMSJDBdBpjPmBMdnSyUJmGBlZ0jbf1OU35A9mZqZnoPFR9b0S4bVVZe0CBUyP nTUJhMD/FUfbfyDIFcejYSKYah2sWaDzV2FuCs0i3ORsLCFsrNwZVnQniSGwk+NZrgQ3 +ar1t7DmQ+cMI3P3tNZV92sH+mMfkZSNi6K1pzNwSGJX/GGI3I6ev2nZmQYJjE/mCAs9 zXQgGh5I2Y47mqKqUOUQOgAjAeAjSYpDQvNKWiOpqk5oWRNNNmFVx33wpmNdXxbCYu8L f6Eg== X-Received: by 10.42.150.131 with SMTP id a3mr7528795icw.8.1362170997633; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:49:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.43.71.196 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:49:57 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:72002 gmane.emacs.windows:5715 Archived-At: --90e6ba6e835870033304d6e32688 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Currently, Emacs ties up the Command Prompt until the user quits Emacs. In Git Bash, you can hack around this with an ampersand (&), but the default behavior should really be to fork a thread for Emacs and immediately return terminal control to the user. Can we default the next version to this behavior? -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us --90e6ba6e835870033304d6e32688 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Currently, Emacs ties up the Command Prompt until the user= quits Emacs. In Git Bash, you can hack around this with an ampersand (&= ;), but the default behavior should really be to fork a thread for Emacs an= d immediately return terminal control to the user.

Can we default the next version to this behavior?

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Cheers,

Andrew= Pennebaker
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