'emacs&' doesn't work

verbose · 05-20-2005, 12:46 AM

If I type 'emacs&' it will not launch emacs in a separate window. In fact, it doesn't even display emacs. However, it is started since it shows up in the list of processes but it will not open in a new window or even in the shell. 'emacs' works fine but, of course, it opens in the shell which is not what I want.

emacs --version:
GNU Emacs 21.4.1

Thanks
Michael

mrcheeks · 05-20-2005, 01:40 AM

try

Code:

pidof emacs|xargs kill -9;emacs;

See if there are any error messages and if emacs is starting. If it is working try again your command

Code:

emacs&

verbose · 05-20-2005, 08:15 PM

There are no errors and emacs launches fine... in the shell.

If I type 'emacs&' it shows up in the list of processes but doesn't actually launch in a separate window: nothing happens.

Andramalech · 05-21-2005, 04:17 AM

are you not supposed to leave a space between the & and emacs?

EDIT: ok, apparently not... :S

verbose · 05-22-2005, 02:41 AM

Bump?

verbose · 05-23-2005, 08:15 PM

Any ideas, anyone..?

verbose · 05-25-2005, 03:33 PM

Nobody, huh..?

jw2328 · 05-25-2005, 03:46 PM

Do you use emacs in the full blown x environment, or as a terminal editor like nano?

R00ts · 05-25-2005, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Andramalech
are you not supposed to leave a space between the & and emacs?

EDIT: ok, apparently not... :S

I've used a space between emacs and & for years and never had a problem with it. The & operator causes the application/script/whatever to fork off so the console isn't 'stuck' handling it. Pretty useful if you call all your programs from the command line and don't feel like creating 20 terminals to handle 20 different programs.

verbose · 05-25-2005, 10:47 PM

Unforuntately this doesn't work (emacs & instead of emacs& ). Using emacs in this way isn't that big of a deal but I would prefer to have the '&' operator to work as it should. I usually just open two emacs's in separate tabs in a terminal (one with rootly powers and another without) and use F11 to display all open files. However, some things become problematic when emacs in embedded in a terminal rather than its own window.

I would really appreciate any additional help.
Thanks

jw2328 · 05-26-2005, 02:10 AM

Yeah, it seems as if you are using emacs embedded in a terminal. It is not possible to fork its own process then, as if you detach it from the terminal it has nowhere to display. If you want a separate terminal to pop up holding it try something like xterm -e emacs &.

Hope this helps

verbose · 05-26-2005, 02:33 AM

Well what do you know... that worked all right.
I appreciate your help. I'll have to try to figure out some way to do this some other way. It works though.

jw2328 · 05-26-2005, 02:36 AM

Why not just add an alias to you .bashrc so that this command is executed by something like emac. I'm not sure whether you can overwrite an original command?

verbose · 05-26-2005, 02:45 AM

I just created a file that contains 'gnome-terminal -e emacs &' and added the directory to my path.

Nevermind, I decided to use your suggested approach.
Thanks again

verbose · 05-30-2005, 11:13 PM

Sorry to revive this relatively old thread but I wanted to comment on jw2328's response. Technically, this is not what I wanted, as this simply launches emacs in a separate terminal. I want emacs& to launch emacs in its own non-terminal window (the "emacs" window).

Any other ideas?
Thanks