From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>, 10613@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10613: Please consider this report again
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:00:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33f5af87-b578-a6fc-22a2-55188734e3ba@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdohFLLZLkZNgFCuk99GW8EzL_L3mR7Zrc9sCxAyn3iTHaA@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/13/2018 01:19 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Unfortunately the two responses to my report seem to have focussed on
> just one word, which I probably chose badly. Sorry about that.
>
> But I think the report remains valid: suspending Emacs is not a
> movement, not an editing command, so why should it affect the behaviour
> of the next kill?
>
> Consider: if I suspend the computer on which I am running Emacs, then it
> does not affect the behaviour of Emacs in any way (or shouldn't!). When
> I resume, Emacs will behave exactly as if nothing had happened in the
> interim (other than time having passed).
>
> So from Emacs's perspective, why should "suspend-emacs" behave differently?
>
I'd argue that Emacs should detect computer suspension somehow, treat it
as a command, and reset any closely-spaced-interaction state it's been
keeping. I don't think the original report is a bug.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-15 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 15:21 bug#10613: 24.0.92; Odd behavior of kill interspersed with suspend: document or change? Reuben Thomas
2012-02-02 8:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2018-02-13 0:32 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-13 9:19 ` bug#10613: Please consider this report again Reuben Thomas
2018-02-14 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-15 1:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-15 2:00 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
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