Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burdvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!psuvax!burdvax!hdj From: hdj@burdvax.UUCP (Herb Jellinek) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: lock.ml Message-ID: <1499@burdvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 10:27:44 EST Article-I.D.: burdvax.1499 Posted: Thu Feb 23 10:27:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 02:53:41 EST References: <298@tjalk.UUCP> Organization: System Development Corporation, Paoli PA Lines: 11 >It is a fallacy that one could lock emacs by using get-tty-character. A >single ^G will free your terminal. A good (and equally convenient way) is to >return-to-monitor, and then `lock'. Sorry, "Dick," but you are correct only if the Emacs in question is running in half-baked mode. Mine is not. Chris Torek also pointed this problem out to me, but according to him, if you add an error-occured around the get-tty-character, and hack up Karl Puder's code a little, the problem you mentioned will no longer exist. Herb Jellinek