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Subject: bug#36296: 26.2; cannot-suspend value on MS Win & resume description
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Hello,

on MS Windows (official build) variable `cannot-suspend' has value
`nil', while according to this thread on help-gnu-emacs:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-0/msg00259.html
probably should have value `t'.  Although there is a line in
documentation of suspend-emacs ``If `cannot-suspend' is non-nil, or if
the system doesn't support job control, run a subshell instead.'', so
it suppose to work even with `nil' and it does for me (both 26.2 and
emacs-27.0.50-snapshot-2019-06-08-i686), but as Ó. Fuentes wrote in
the thread above:

> I tried C-z on MSWindows and it does not run a subshell. The console
> blinks but nothing else happens. I'm using a development version,
> though.

So maybe set it to `t' for MS Windows to be sure it'll work?


And the second part, as I wrote in mentioned thread:

> But also, maybe a line about this in the Emacs manual?  I mean if we
> have `%emacs' in the manual, so why not a line about times when there
> is no job control, which leads to subshell and for example `exit' as
> a way out back to Emacs.  Maybe just putting "or `exit'" next to
> `%emacs' would be sufficient (I'm just guessing here).


S. U.


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Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@HIDDEN> writes:

> on MS Windows (official build) variable `cannot-suspend' has value
> `nil', while according to this thread on help-gnu-emacs:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-0/msg00259.html
> probably should have value `t'.

PROBLEMS says:

*** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.

You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
though the system itself is capable of it.  Either use a different shell,
or set the variable 'cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.

--------

I'm not very familiar with how this works under Windows, but from the
text there, it sounds like it depends on the shell, so Emacs can't
really default the variable to t just based on the OS?  Or is this
always the case on Windows (that `C-z' doesn't work?)

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