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bug#7742: 24.0.50; C-g does not dismiss popup menus
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bug#7742: 24.0.50; C-g does not dismiss popup menus |
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Sat, 08 Oct 2016 23:27:57 -0400 |
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tags 7742 wontfix
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
>
> C-mouse-3 in some buffer, to bring up the popup menu. C-g does not
> dismiss the menu - you are trapped in the menu dialog/interaction. You
> must do something like click mouse-1 outside the menu to dismiss it.
>
> Admittedly, it is usually easier in this context to click mouse-1 than
> to hit C-g on the keyboard. Still, C-g should DTRT.
>
> (I'm guessing that this is hard to fix or it would have been fixed by
> now. But I don't know that, and it's good to record the bug anyway,
> even if we don't intend to try to fix it anytime soon.)
According to https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24596#8
C-g doesn't work on a GUI frame because the menu is controlled by
Windows, not by Emacs, and Windows doesn't know about C-g. IOW,
this is a limitation we can do very little about.
So I'm marking this as wontfix.
- bug#7742: 24.0.50; C-g does not dismiss popup menus,
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