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

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-02-13 12:09]:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:37:56 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com,
> >   gregory@heytings.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > So please don't assume C-z is some shell job control magic; it isn't.
> > > This is Emacs emulating that magic, because we decided long ago to do
> > > that.  Arguing that Emacs does it because the underlying shell does it
> > > is therefore counter-productive.
> > 
> > Maybe there is some misunderstanding. Your explanation is definitely
> > clarifying for others, for me I understood it already though without
> > those technicalities.
> 
> Your understanding didn't show in the text you were writing.  That is
> why I replied to the large number of messages you devoted to the C-z
> issue, which quite clearly said that C-z _is_ job control.  Showing
> how the various shells handle that didn't help.  People on this list
> are not necessarily fluent in the Emacs internals, so telling them
> that C-z is just a key binding in Emacs, like any other one, looked
> important to me.

Sure, that is right. I also understood it is decision of a program
recently. I was thinking shell has more power over invoked programs,
but it does not.