Re: comint-interrupt-subjob also kills pending input

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I find that it's almost _always_ the case that when I interrupt a
>     process in shell-mode, and have pending input, that I want the input to
>     remain pending (so with the previous comint behavior, I'd almost always
>     immediately hit C-y).
> 
>     With your change it becomes much more difficult to do that.
> 
> It is trivial -- M-p brings it back.
> 
>     Instead of replacing `comint-kill-input' with `comint-skip-input', why
>     not just have nothing?
> 
> I don't like that.  C-c C-c in Emacs is supposed to be like C-c in
> an ordinary terminal.  People could be painfully surprised if that
> fails to discard the input.

I for one would be happy to see Emacs keep the input, since I've
always been annoyed that shells don't keep it (especially since they
typically also fail to put the discarded input in the history so
M-p doesn't even work).


        Stefan