GNU bug report logs - #9398
can no longer suspend emacs and get back to the shell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

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Report forwarded to owner <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#9398; Package emacs. (Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:49:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to jidanni <at> jidanni.org:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org. (Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:49:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: can no longer suspend emacs and get back to the shell
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:23:39 +0800
Starting with
emacs-snapshot:
  Installed: 1:20110827-1
one can no longer do
$ emacs
C-z
and expect to be able to type anything to the shell.
One now needs to do
$ emacs &
beforehand for that.




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bug#9398; Package emacs. (Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:28:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9398: can no longer suspend emacs and get back to the shell
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:24:16 -0400
> From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:23:39 +0800
> 
> Starting with
> emacs-snapshot:
>   Installed: 1:20110827-1
> one can no longer do
> $ emacs
> C-z
> and expect to be able to type anything to the shell.
> One now needs to do
> $ emacs &
> beforehand for that.

I cannot reproduce this in today's build, FWIW.




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bug#9398; Package emacs. (Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:46:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #11 received at 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: eliz <at> gnu.org
Cc: 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9398: can no longer suspend emacs and get back to the shell
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:42:43 +0800
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> Installed: 1:20110827-1
EZ> I cannot reproduce this in today's build, FWIW.
Well the snapshots are weekly, so I suppose you'll hear from me again if
it is not fixed next week.




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bug#9398; Package emacs. (Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:45:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #14 received at 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: icewm <at> packages.debian.org, xterm <at> packages.debian.org,
	dickey <at> invisible-island.net, debian-emacsen <at> lists.debian.org
Subject: can no longer suspend emacs and get back to the shell
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:40:53 +0800
Try this with Debian emacs-snapshot 1:20110902-1 and icewm in an xterm:
$ emacs -Q
Then in emacs hit ^Z
Now we are staring at the calling shell's window.
But we cannot do anything.
This started happening two weeks ago.

The interesting thing is that if one now does ALT TAB twice, switching
back and forth to the shell window again, one can now type ^Z, ^C etc.
like one used to be able to.

So that means this must not be an emacs problem, but instead an icewm or
X windows problem, just like what happens when one exits firefox, one
needs to switch back and forth to regain the ability to type into the
original shell.

In emacs' case the problem occurs when one types ^Z, not at exit though.




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bug#9398; Package emacs. (Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:49:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #17 received at 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: dickey <at> invisible-island.net, xterm <at> packages.debian.org,
	icewm <at> packages.debian.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
	debian-emacsen <at> lists.debian.org, 9398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9398: can no longer suspend emacs and get back to the shell
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:44:55 -0400
jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Try this with Debian emacs-snapshot 1:20110902-1 and icewm in an xterm:
> $ emacs -Q
> Then in emacs hit ^Z
> Now we are staring at the calling shell's window.
> But we cannot do anything.
> This started happening two weeks ago.
>
> The interesting thing is that if one now does ALT TAB twice, switching
> back and forth to the shell window again, one can now type ^Z, ^C etc.
> like one used to be able to.

In that situation, `emacs -Q' should open an X frame.  C-z will iconify
(minimize) that frame, not suspend Emacs.  Your bug report makes no
sense.




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Message #22 received at 9398-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: submit <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#640461: returning 'focus' to calling window upon suspend or exit
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:46:30 +0800
Package: xserver-common
Version: 2:1.11.0-1
X-debbugs-cc: 9398-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org

http://debbugs.gnu.org/9398 must instead have something to do with
Debian's X stuff, and not icewm or emacs or firefox.
I hereby create a Debian bug report, and respectfully ask the Debian
Devels to see http://debbugs.gnu.org/9398 .






bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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