Re: Detachable shells in Emacs?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.7694.1346094589.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> >> What I'd like is to be able to detach the shell process running in the
> >> buffer, like the GNU screen program allows me to do, and resume it
> >> later.
> > 
> > Just leave your Emacs running and then connect to it with emacsclient
> > when you want to see the result.
> > 
> > 
> >         Stefan
> 
> Not a choice if you started emacs via e.g., ssh.
> 
> I really miss this feature.  Turn running emacs into a daemon.  I'll bet it's 
> not that hard to implement this.

Actually, it is. Just like you can't start a shell, do a bunch of things 
in it, and then turn it into a screen session. You have to run the shell 
within screen in the first place.

I suppose Emacs could do it by ALWAYS daemonizing itself when it starts 
up, and doing an implicit emacsclient.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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