Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

> But mentioning tmux/screen is not relevant to suspending
> a process, like I have repeated several times. It is not
> good misleading users who read this mailing list to think
> that tmux/screen replaces something like suspending or
> continuing of a process.

With tmux, you can do almost everything you can do with your
computer, including suspending a process. More than that, if
you use tmux, you don't have to suspend and resume processes
as you maybe may choose to do if you for some reason choose to
operate your text editor and programming environment in
a single window with no possibility to open an new shell pane
or go to another window.

> as in that time the program may already damage data, user
> may lose data, disk may be filled completely, files could be
> deleted [...]

Luckily there is a solution solution to these problems:
Control-Z

> In Emacs mailing lists people often forget that that Emacs
> and other software runs on multiuser computers.
> Universities, organizations, various computer providers,
> website providers, may provide shell access but not all
> types of software. Sometimes is impossible to install
> everything as user as what you can install as root

Indeed, for the tmux solution to work - and actually tmux in
general - tmux has to be installed.

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