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* bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers
       [not found] <b6wscputjm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
@ 2010-04-10 19:26 ` Chong Yidong
  2010-04-10 20:05   ` Jose E. Marchesi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chong Yidong @ 2010-04-10 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jemarch; +Cc: 1975

> 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.






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* bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers
  2010-04-10 19:26 ` bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers Chong Yidong
@ 2010-04-10 20:05   ` Jose E. Marchesi
  2012-04-11 12:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jose E. Marchesi @ 2010-04-10 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cyd; +Cc: 1975


    > 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.







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* bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers
  2010-04-10 20:05   ` Jose E. Marchesi
@ 2012-04-11 12:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  2012-11-30  8:06       ` Chong Yidong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2012-04-11 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jose E. Marchesi; +Cc: 1975

Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Currently `C-u M-x shell' defaults to "*shell*", which seems pretty
nonsensical.  Surely if the user wanted to use that buffer, then she
would have just typed `M-x shell'.

So perhaps `C-u M-x shell' should just default to the current buffer
instead?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/





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* bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers
  2012-04-11 12:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2012-11-30  8:06       ` Chong Yidong
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chong Yidong @ 2012-11-30  8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 1975-done, Jose E. Marchesi

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Currently `C-u M-x shell' defaults to "*shell*", which seems pretty
> nonsensical.  Surely if the user wanted to use that buffer, then she
> would have just typed `M-x shell'.
>
> So perhaps `C-u M-x shell' should just default to the current buffer
> instead?

Agreed.  Implemented in trunk.





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