Subject: Re: disabling suspend

From: Edan Idzerda <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:58:21 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Mike Miller wrote:

> I see that pine has an option to enable suspend.  I generally like to have
> suspend enabled (so I set it that way in .pinerc), but when I launch pine
> in its own X window, accidentally hitting suspend (^Z) will cause a
> problem that I don't know how to fix (I get hung in the xterm window and
> fg doesn't work).

Two quick ideas:

	1) alias pine to 'pine -z' in your shell, then start without
	   in your xterm

	2) start pine with an alternate .pinerc that doesn't
	   have suspension enabled

Curiously, when vi is started in the same method, it won't allow
you to suspend it.  I wonder if there is a difference in the environment
that would allow Pine to recognize that "now is a bad time to suspend."

To narrow it down more, if you start pine from a shell that doesn't
support job control, like sh, pine will still suspend itself, where
vi won't.  This is geekily interesting; I'll have to look at it 
some more ;)

- edan

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:24:32 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Note also that:

 o you can turn features on or off from the command line, e.g.
   pine -feature-list=no-enable-suspend

 o there is a feature to suspend via creating a subshell

-teg