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24.5; Backgrounding emacsclient hangs emacs
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Message #14 received at 21718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com> writes:
> I am running emacs from a text ssh session.
>
> % emacs -Q
> M-x server-start RET
> M-x shell RET
> % touch foo
> % emacsclient foo
> C-x b RET (switch back to shell buffer)
> M-x comint-stop-subjob RET
>
> I expected this to background the emacsclient process within the shell
> window. But it causes all of emacs to disappear from the screen, back
> to the original shell prompt that launched emacs, where the emacs
> process appears to have hung and can only be killed with C-c.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)
I tried this in Emacs 25.1 (and Emacs 28), but was unable to reproduce
the problem. Are you still seeing this issue in newer Emacs versions?
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