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Article #99844y-or-n-p uninterruptability
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 1990 22:49
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 1990 22:49
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GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Tue Oct 31 1989 on marat (hpux) y-or-n-p is not interruptible by ^G. This is appropriate for certain cases, but in my opinion not for most. The answer "n" is in some cases equivalent to quitting (e.g. add-abbrev), but not always: repeat-matching-complex-command Not only can you not quit with ^G, you can't even move to other windows from the minibuffer to fix things up before you go. save-buffers-kill-emacs save-some-buffers If you ^G, presumably you didn't want save all the buffers after all (or to quit Emacs for that matter). Suggested solution: Have an interruptable and an uninterruptable version. Of course, if it becomes interruptable, programs which are not careful about unwind-protect'ing themselves could get into trouble....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,4d6d9c470b07dc13,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-04-20 02:39:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ri.osf.fr!macrakis From: macrakis@ri.osf.fr (Stavros Macrakis) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: y-or-n-p uninterruptability Message-ID: <9004191448.AA05516@mururoa.imag.fr> Date: 19 Apr 90 22:49:09 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 23 Posted: Thu Apr 19 23:49:09 1990