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Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c
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- From: suzuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (SUZUKI Hisao)
- To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 11:05:37 JST
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <199706231522.LAA00907@xxxxxxxxxx> (message from Zoltan Hidvegi on Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:22:47 -0400 (EDT))
- Organization: Oki Technosystems Laboratory, Inc., Nagoya, Japan
>> % emacs -nw &
>> % fg
>> [type ^X^C to terminate the emacs]
>> % stty
>>
>> [Note: this is not artificial. When you forget to set
>> DISPLAY, you will be put in the same situation.]
[snip]
>> If solely my patch of June 20 had applied, then this is not
>> happend when you _once_ suspend the "fg"ed emacs job before
>> terminate it. Now that you also changed Src/jobs.c from
>
>But it did happed when you did not suspend the fg'ed job, even with your
>patch, right?
Yes, precisely. However, suspending the fg'ed job was an _easy_
work around to do when you got into the situation. In fact, I
and my colleagues had never noticed that problem before; we
usually suspend emacs of non x-window to switch the jobs.
>Still I think zsh is right here, and it is an emacs bug. The problem is
>emacs leaves the tty setting in a wrong state when it exits. I do not
>know how zsh can help here. Note that ksh does the same, even worse,
>since after this the ksh line editor becomes unusable, and I had to kill
>ksh from an other terminal.
Well, try bash-1.14.7 or tcsh-6.06, please. They get on well
with emacs. It is regrettable that zsh does not. In spite of
its _excellent_ line-editing facility and other useful features,
this particular problem may make zsh _notorious_ as a shell that
is free and powerful but cannot work well even with emacs...
Perhaps, IMHO, the better way to do is:
(1) For zsh-3.0.X, to take a conservative patch as mine for the
time being, and note the problem and works around (ttyctl,
STTY, or job suspending) in Etc/BUGS. Please do not forget
that zsh-3.0.X is being used for _daily_ use by many users
all over the world.
(2) For zsh-3.1.X, to devise an innovation. I think it is best
to make a third option for ttyctl which let the shell
ignore stty changes under some unusual situations (as bash
does). And it will be nice if the new option is default.
--
Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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