GNU bug report logs - #19812
24.4; suggest `shell-mode' not interactive

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>

Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 04:14:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> mouse.gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au, 19812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19812: 24.4; suggest `shell-mode' not interactive
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 10:22:44 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 21:52:17 +0200
> Cc: 19812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> As you point out, there's a lot of modes that only make sense in certain
> limited contexts, and having them be interactive isn't very helpful.
> I'm not sure it's that much of a problem in general, but it is a
> particular an issue with `shell-mode', since I'd guess that a lot of
> people type that instead of `M-x shell-script-mode' when starting to
> write new shell scripts.
> 
> The following fixes this particular issue.  Would something like this be
> welcome?

Are there no valid use cases where invoking shell-mode interactively
makes sense?  If there are such use cases, we cannot disallow them
now.
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