Re: [bug or not] suspend emacs when emacs is my shell

Madhu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* BP25 <[email protected]> :
Wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:21:50 +0000:

> When emacs is my user shell (as in etc/passwd) and I do C-z, the
> screen flickers and emacs comes back immediately. Is this in line with
> expectations?

Can you suspend your login shell?  say /bin/bash in your etc/passwd?
(You can't, it's because your "login shell")

Then how can you expect your  /bin/emacs as your login shell to behave
any differently?
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