GNU bug report logs - #56239
28.1; Cannot send signals by name to inferior process by calling signal-process interactively

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:16:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 56239 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: bug#56239: 28.1; Cannot send signals by name to inferior process by calling signal-process interactively
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:47:30 +0200

Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> For the signal code, type 'SIGUSR1 (or "SIGUSR1", or SIGUSR1).
>
> The operation fails with the message "Please enter a number".

Yup.  I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.  I wasn't sure whether to allow
completing to USR1 og SIGUSR1, and went with the former, but I don't
really have an opinion on what form to use.  (So feel free to change
that.)

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