GNU bug report logs - #10613
24.0.92; Odd behavior of kill interspersed with suspend: document or change?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:23:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 10613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10613: 24.0.92;
 Odd behavior of kill interspersed with suspend: document or change?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:32:50 -0500

tags 10613 notabug
close 10613
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Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/26/12 8:21 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:

>> This feels a bit odd, as “suspend” is not a normal command: rather like
>> suspending a computer, I expect that after resuming Emacs, it will be in
>> the same state as when suspended. But this is not the case: if one
>> suspends Emacs after a kill command, then on resumption a further kill
>> will start a new kill-ring entry.
>
> What is abnormal about the suspend-* commands, from Emacs' perspective?

Yeah, emacs-suspend is not abnormal, not documented as abnormal, and I
see no reason to make it abnormal.
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