Re: C-z (Re: Two GTK related feature requests)

[David Kastrup]

Stephan Stahl <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:01:50PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > > Reminds me...  I'd like to see C-z de-assigned from
> > > iconify-or-deiconify-frame.
> > 
> > Agreed.  It's very rarely useful, but often annoying.  Also it's
> > completely non-standard, except that it tries to simulate the tty
> > behavior, which seems wrongheaded because iconify-frame rarely
> > brings you back to the "parent shell" or anything vaguely related.
> 
> If C-z should continue to emulate the behavior of an tty when used
> in a windowing system then maybe it should call (shell)? That could
> at least be thought of as "parent shell"..

I'd call that very much obtuse.

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