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From: Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org>
To: cyd@stupidchicken.com
Cc: 1975@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:05:03 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410.220503.264135546.jemarch@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5mn3y7z.fsf@stupidchicken.com>


    > Just a tiny patch for shell.
    >
    > The patch assumes that the person launching M-xshell while in a
    > shell-mode buffer with a terminated process really wants to launch a
    > shell process in the current buffer instead to switch to "*shell*".
    >
    > The semantics of C-uM-xshell are not changed by the patch.
    
    Could you explain why you think this is necessary?  The current
    behavior, where M-x shell reuses the *shell* buffer, seems fine.

Just consider the situation where you use different shells
simultaneously with meaningful names.  For example, debugging an
application: shell-daemon, shell-mmi and shell-gdb.

If I want to restart the shell that is running in shell-gdb, I usually
Ctrl-D to terminate it and then I reuse the buffer.  Without the patch
I have to C-uM-xshell and then type shell-gdb.







  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b6wscputjm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2010-04-10 19:26 ` bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers Chong Yidong
2010-04-10 20:05   ` Jose E. Marchesi [this message]
2012-04-11 12:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-11-30  8:06       ` Chong Yidong

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