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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs help from terminal
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:09:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgidozil.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YqrA67Ukir6TyUQV@protected.localdomain

Jean Louis wrote:

> When process is suspended, it is paused. Emacs does nothing
> in background, it has stopped. Its execution has stopped.
> If there are processes in Emacs they have been paused.

But I don't see why one would want to do that. It's not how
anything works these days, or for quite some time actually ...

> This is totally different to invoking a program from within
> Emacs or from shell within Emacs. I also do not see how
> suspending process is related to invoking shell in Emacs.

But no one is really doing that manually _at all_ anymore is
what I'm saying.

> You maybe think that the only use of suspending Emacs is to
> run some other command in shell. Certainly one can do that.
> But suspending stops the Emacs process, it does not let it
> run. There may be quite different reasons for stopping
> a process.

...

> And one may have multiple Emacs processes stopped or
> resumed, and running in the shell in the same
> time [...]

:)

-- 
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https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-16  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-13 22:43 Emacs help from terminal carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-14  4:51 ` tomas
2022-06-14 10:11   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-14 13:38   ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-14 13:56     ` Samuel Banya
2022-06-14 14:03       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-14 13:57     ` tomas
2022-06-14 14:05       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-14 14:00     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-14 14:13       ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-14 14:37         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-14 21:52           ` Jean Louis
2022-06-14 22:47             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15  5:29               ` Jean Louis
2022-06-15  8:52                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 17:00                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-06-15 17:16                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 19:55                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 23:40                       ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-06-15 23:52                         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-16  5:52                           ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-06-16  7:12                             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 10:22             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-15 10:26               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 14:06                 ` Samuel Banya
2022-06-15 14:15                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-06-15 15:16                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 15:52                     ` Samuel Banya
2022-06-15 15:59                       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-16  7:48                       ` Robert Pluim
2022-06-16 14:45                         ` Samuel Banya
2022-06-16  5:34                     ` Jean Louis
2022-06-16  7:09                       ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-06-16 15:08                         ` Jean Louis
2022-06-16 17:31                           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-16 17:36                             ` Jean Louis
2022-06-17 18:36                               ` Emanuel Berg

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