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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
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Richard M Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:27:03 -0500 |
I used to agree with you, but The Kids These Days (ie, those who have
grown up with WIMPy interfaces) think of a window as a (foreground)
process. If the window goes away, the process stops.
But that is generally false. If you iconify a window, the application
continues working -- you just don't see what it displays. For
instance, if you iconify a terminal, the processes running in it do
not stop.
In particular, on a GUI the difference between a kill -STOP'ed emacs
and one with no visible windows is hardly important to the user, who
must do something unusual to resurrect it.
To de-iconify the Emacs frame just requires moving the mouse to the
icon, or to the tab in the bar at the bottom of the screen, and
clicking. I don't think that is unusual.
So the "withdraw frame"
function (which happens to be called `suspend-frame') just keeps
withdrawing frames, and when the last one is withdrawn, emacs goes to
sleep.
It doesn't go to sleep. If it was waiting for a command, it continues
waiting and there is no easy way for it to receive one.
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, (continued)
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Richard M Stallman <=
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Chong Yidong, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/28