Re: Call in the SWAT team to shoot emacs but spare Firefox

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> >> $ emacs --version
>>>> >> GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1
>>>> >> $ BROWSER=firefox emacs -Q -nw
>>>> > Try "nohup firefox" in the above, as myself and others on this thread
>>>> > have suggested.
>>>> That's a workaround.  I think Emacs shouldn't require you to do that.
>>> Why?  It's no different from any other shell that you run programs from.
>> Every shell intended for interactive use (bash, tcsh, zsh) offers a way
>> to make "nohup" the default so you don't need to use `nohup' explicitly.
> Huh?  You can't do that since nohup redirects stdout/stderr to nohup.out.

I'm glad to know that my zsh does the impossible: when I kill my xterm,
any background job I have running (Emacs, xpdf, Firefox, ...) keeps on
living very happily even though I started them without the use of
`nohup'.  Admittedly, they don't have their output redirected to
nohup.out, so it's not absolutely completely totally 100% identical to
running them with `nohup', but ... that's not what the OP requested in
the first place anyway.


        Stefan