Subject: EMACS AS ALTERNATE EDITOR?

From: [email-masked] (William Edelstein)
Date: 11 Sep 1996 20:51:29 GMT

I have tried to use EMACS as the alternative editor. When I hit ^_ ,
the screen blinks momentarily and then gives me the message "Alternative
editor abnormally terminated (255)". Any suggestions?

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William A. Edelstein
GE Corporate R&D
Schenectady, NY 12309
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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:49:17 GMT

>editor abnormally terminated (255)". Any suggestions?

Perhaps you need to set some different startup flags in the setup?

Have you tried it with "enable-alternate-editor-explicitly" (or whatever)
set?  This causes it to automatically give you your preferred editor
whenever it would give you pico.  I have set jove.

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