Re: Detachable shells in Emacs?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

You can always use emacs' daemon option (which has been around for a few
years now), but as far as I can see, you need to start it that way up
front. Stefan Monnier's approach seems to allow you to detach from a
running emacs started without that option.

I use the daemon mode quite often; in fact, these days I rarely run
emacs without it.