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bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#1975: Reusing dead shell buffers
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:34:44 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> writes:

> If I want to restart the shell that is running in shell-gdb, I usually
> Ctrl-D to terminate it and then I reuse the buffer.  Without the patch
> I have to C-uM-xshell and then type shell-gdb.

Currently `C-u M-x shell' defaults to "*shell*", which seems pretty
nonsensical.  Surely if the user wanted to use that buffer, then she
would have just typed `M-x shell'.

So perhaps `C-u M-x shell' should just default to the current buffer
instead?

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