I think screen is looking for a tty named emacs. If you give screen a bogus tty name it will work. Or you can pass another option. For example, try 'screen -D -R -t EMACS emacs'
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > If I say 'screen emacs' then it starts a new screen running emacs. > But 'screen -D -R emacs', if there is no existing session, starts a new one > but does not start the emacs command. I had expected it to connect to any > existing session, and if there were none, to make a new one running emacs. > > If this is not supported, then the above command should give an error > message > rather than ignoring the command to run. > > % screen --version > Screen version 4.00.02 (FAU) 5-Dec-03 > > -- > Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users >
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