[p4] problem using emacs as P4EDITOR under win2k and tcsh or cmd shell

[David Birkhead]

There are actually 2 commands for running emacs, 'emacs' and 'runemacs'.
If you run 'runemacs'  from a command prompt will see that it returns 
immediately, while running 'emacs' does not.

Try using the 'emacs' command. I believe that will solve your problems.

-Daveb

At 03:30 PM 1/14/2002 +0000, Simon Green wrote:
> >>>>> Paul Mitchell <pmitchel at ati.com> writes:
>
>  > We are seeing the problem described in Perforce's technote 17
>  > (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note017.html).  Quoting from
>  > that tech note:
>
>  >      On NT 4.0, Perforce sometimes uses the DOS shell (cmd.exe) to start
>  > programs designated by the user's P4EDITOR or P4DIFF environment variable.
>  > Unfortunately, the DOS shell is smart enough to know that when a Windows
>  > command is run, it doesn't need to wait for the command to complete. This
>  > makes Perforce think the command has finished, and Perforce then continues
>  > processing, often deleting the temporary files that the editor or diff 
> were
>  > run on. This yields errors about temp files not being found and other 
> weird
>  > results.
>
>  > The workarounds that are described in the note do not work under tcsh 
> or cmd
>  > shell.  Can anyone point me toward a fix for this?
>
>Untested:
>Can you wrap the command you really want to run in something that doesn't look
>like a windows program (ie a .cmd or .bat script)?
>
>If that doesn't work and you're desperate, you could always put a 'pause'
>command at the end of the wrapper, to force the shell to wait.  Ugh.
>
>--Simon
>
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