bug#10613: 24.0.92; Odd behavior of kill interspersed with suspend: document or change?

[Noam Postavsky]

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Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/26/12 8:21 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:

>> This feels a bit odd, as “suspend” is not a normal command: rather like
>> suspending a computer, I expect that after resuming Emacs, it will be in
>> the same state as when suspended. But this is not the case: if one
>> suspends Emacs after a kill command, then on resumption a further kill
>> will start a new kill-ring entry.
>
> What is abnormal about the suspend-* commands, from Emacs' perspective?

Yeah, emacs-suspend is not abnormal, not documented as abnormal, and I
see no reason to make it abnormal.