OS X: C-g does not break out of infinite loop

[John Owens <john_owens@yahoo.com>]

When sending a large email via FLIM, I could not break
out of the send using C-g. I thought this was a FLIM
problem, but Yoichi Nakayama ably identified it as a
emacs problem (on OS X specifically). The problem is
described in more detail here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.wanderlust.general/632

with Yoichi's response (together with a test case that
I can reproduce: C-g on OS X cannot recover from
evaling any of the following three:

1. (condition-case nil (while 1) (error (error "catch
error")) (quit (error "catch quit")))
2. (condition-case nil (while 1) (error (error "catch
error")))
3. (while 1)

) at:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.wanderlust.general/635

(He verified this with GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1
(powerpc-apple-darwin7.3.0) of 2004-05-08; I also
verified it with GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1
(powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0) of 2004-07-07.)

He also points out that C-g has had historical
problems in OS X:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.devel/46

Given that the above message indicates that the 10.2
OS X release allowed support for handling C-g
properly, maybe now's a good time to do so?

JDO


	
		
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