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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/entering.texi,v
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/entering.texi,v |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:08:35 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 06/08/25 21:08:35
Index: entering.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/man/entering.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -b -r1.17 -r1.18
--- entering.texi 3 May 2006 23:22:14 -0000 1.17
+++ entering.texi 25 Aug 2006 21:08:35 -0000 1.18
@@ -69,20 +69,19 @@
@cindex leaving Emacs
@cindex quitting Emacs
- There are two commands for exiting Emacs, and three kinds of exiting:
address@hidden Emacs, @dfn{Iconifying} Emacs, and @dfn{killing}
-Emacs.
+ There are two commands for exiting Emacs, and three kinds of
+exiting: @dfn{iconifying} Emacs, @dfn{suspending} Emacs, and
address@hidden Emacs.
+
+ @dfn{Iconifying} means replacing the Emacs frame with a small box or
+``icon'' on the screen. This is the usual way to exit Emacs when
+you're using a graphical display---if you bother to ``exit'' at all.
+(Just switching to another application is usually sufficient.)
@dfn{Suspending} means stopping Emacs temporarily and returning
-control to its parent process (usually a shell), allowing you to resume
-editing later in the same Emacs job, with the same buffers, same kill
-ring, same undo history, and so on. This is the usual way to exit Emacs
-when running on a text terminal.
-
- @dfn{Iconifying} means replacing the Emacs frame with a small box
-somewhere on the screen. This is the usual way to exit Emacs when you're
-using a graphics terminal---if you bother to ``exit'' at all. (Just switching
-to another application is usually sufficient.)
+control to its parent process (usually a shell), allowing you to
+resume editing later in the same Emacs job. This is the usual way to
+exit Emacs when running it on a text terminal.
@dfn{Killing} Emacs means destroying the Emacs job. You can run Emacs
again later, but you will get a fresh Emacs; there is no way to resume
@@ -97,12 +96,18 @@
@end table
@kindex C-z
address@hidden suspend-emacs
- To suspend or iconify Emacs, type @kbd{C-z} (@code{suspend-emacs}).
-On text terminals, this suspends Emacs. On graphical displays,
-it iconifies the Emacs frame.
address@hidden iconify-or-deiconify-frame
+ On graphical displays, @kbd{C-z} runs the command
address@hidden, which temporarily iconifies (or
+``minimizes'') the selected Emacs frame (@pxref{Frames}). You can
+then use the window manager to select some other application. (You
+could select another application without iconifying Emacs first, but
+getting the Emacs frame out of the way can make it more convenient to
+find the other application.)
- Suspending Emacs takes you back to the shell from which you invoked
address@hidden suspend-emacs
+ On a text terminal, @kbd{C-z} runs the command @code{suspend-emacs}.
+Suspending Emacs takes you back to the shell from which you invoked
Emacs. You can resume Emacs with the shell command @command{%emacs}
in most common shells. On systems that don't support suspending
programs, @kbd{C-z} starts an inferior shell that communicates
@@ -112,19 +117,12 @@
systems, you can only get back to the shell from which Emacs was run
(to log out, for example) when you kill Emacs.
address@hidden cannot-suspend
Suspending can fail if you run Emacs under a shell that doesn't
-support suspending programs, even if the system itself does support
-it. In such a case, you can set the variable @code{cannot-suspend} to
-a address@hidden value to force @kbd{C-z} to start an inferior shell.
-(One might also describe Emacs's parent shell as ``inferior'' for
-failing to support job control properly, but that is a matter of
-taste.)
-
- On graphical displays, @kbd{C-z} has a different meaning: it runs
-the command @code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}, which temporarily
-iconifies (or ``minimizes'') the selected Emacs frame
-(@pxref{Frames}). Then you can use the window manager to get back to
-a shell window.
+support suspendion of its subjobs, even if the system itself does
+support it. In such a case, you can set the variable
address@hidden to a address@hidden value to force @kbd{C-z} to
+start an inferior shell.
@kindex C-x C-c
@findex save-buffers-kill-emacs
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