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Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signa
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names |
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Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:23:43 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I admit that I don't understand the purpose and the intended uses of
> this new primitive. Is it there only for signal-process or more
> generally for read-signal-name or even more generally for providing
> the exhaustive list of names of all the signals known to the OS?
It's for read-signal-name.
> If it's only for signal-process, then is it really useful to produce a
> completion table of 63 or 255 signal names, quite a few of which
> cannot be usefully delivered to another process? Perhaps it would be
> better to have a much shorter (system-dependent) list of signals that
> can be delivered to processes on each system? IOW, if this is
> supposed to be a convenience feature, then why not provide the user
> with a convenient short list of signals that he/she would reasonably
> consider delivering, and leave the rest to numbers?
I don't know how to determine which ones are reasonable to consider
delivering, so punting to gnulib seems like a more long term solution.
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- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/27
Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Daniel MartÃn, 2022/06/27
Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/27
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names,
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- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/28
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/28
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/28
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/28
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/28
- Re: master ed84f24a21: Make `signal-process' allow completing over signal names, Po Lu, 2022/06/28