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Re: question about `quit-char'
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: question about `quit-char' |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:45:46 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Apparently, no one ever bothered to make sure that the rest of Emacs
>> works when quit_char is not C-g: there are many, many places in the Lisp
>> sources that assume C-g quits.
>
> This was always the case, so nothing changed lately.
>
>> So I think this feature should be removed.
>>
>> This will involve eliminating the 4th (QUIT) element in the return value
>> of current-input-mode, the 4th argument of set-input-mode, and the
>> function set-quit-char. As far as I can tell, nothing in the rest of
>> Emacs uses these.
>>
>> Does anyone object?
>
> I do. I don't see why we should remove one of the oldest features in
> Emacs, just because it's complicated to use it. Certainly not now.
Okay. I didn't realize that current-input-mode has been around for a
while.
Probably the right thing to do, at this point, is to simple assume that
\C-g is the same as quit-char. So Glenn's patch in bug#1205 is OK.
After the release, we can add a `quit-char' function and change the Lisp
code to use it.
- question about `quit-char', Drew Adams, 2008/10/21
- Re: question about `quit-char', Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: question about `quit-char', Chong Yidong, 2008/10/21
- RE: question about `quit-char', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/21
- RE: question about `quit-char', Drew Adams, 2008/10/21
- RE: question about `quit-char', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/22