GNU bug report logs - #21718
24.5; Backgrounding emacsclient hangs emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:16:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.5

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Message #14 received at 21718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>
Cc: 21718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21718: 24.5; Backgrounding emacsclient hangs emacs
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:42:34 +0200
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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