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Article #98886`y-or-n-p' versus `abort-recursive-edit'
From: Francois Pinard
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 18:07
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 18:07
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In GNU Emacs 18.55.6 of Mon Jun 25 1990 on icule (usg-unix-v) I took the habit of using `C-]' (abort-recursive-edit) to interrupt an unfinished command requesting mini-buffer input, instead of `C-g'. This should be ok, because `C-]' documentation says: Abort the command that requested this recursive edit or minibuffer input. This does not seem to work with y-or-n-p. Repeat by: emacs -q FILE ; open some file SPC ; modify the file C-x s ; save some buffers Emacs reply with: Save $HOME/FILE? (y or n) Then do: C-] ; try aborting the command Emacs then says: Please answer y or n. Save $HOME/FILE? (y or n) -- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (514) 588-4656 cp 886 L'Epiphanie (Qc) J0K 1J0 ...!uunet!iros1!pinard
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,f967a0852b5f63f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-26 10:07:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU!pinard%icule.UUCP From: pinard%icule.UUCP@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (Francois Pinard) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: `y-or-n-p' versus `abort-recursive-edit' Message-ID: <9101261807.AA05250@icule.UUCP> Date: 26 Jan 91 18:07:10 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 30 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu