Re: Manual hunk edit mode + emacs + ^G == garbage

From: Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2012, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20120222T222339-97@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <EDCC7CB3-4DFF-45B8-9E23-E12045CC29D7@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin <at> sb.org> writes:

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> I'm still very much interested in finding a solution to why ^G kills
> emacs when it's invoked by git. As I said earlier, it appears that emacs
> shares the same process group with the perl process that called it, even
> though Andreas Schwab says it puts itself into its own process group and
> invoking emacs from the shell does just that. Does anyone know why this
> might be happening?

Kevin,

I was having the same problem you described on Mac OS X Lion and found this old thread. A workaround that works for me is:

~/bin/emacs.sh:

#!/bin/bash -i

emacs "$@"

-- cut --

git config --global core.editor ~/bin/emacs.sh

Matt