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Article #189191reading a ^G
From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 07:33
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 07:33
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Is there any way to read a single character from the user, even if that character happens to be a control-G? Neither of these seem to work: (let ((inhibit-quit t)) (read-char)) (condition-case () (read-char) (quit ?\^G)) -- Jamie
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,2c8db96dc94edc07,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-10 17:48:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!stanford.edu!lucid.com!campeau!jwz From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: reading a ^G Message-ID: <JWZ.91Apr10033333@thalidomide.lucid.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 07:33:33 GMT Sender: usenet@lucid.com Distribution: gnu Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 8