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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: catching keyboard-quit from read-char
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:11:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eljj79j.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)

I thought this used to work, but maybe I'm imagining things...

I've got a macro for prompting the user for a value, but catching a
couple of signals and returning nil in those cases. It looks like:

(defmacro ebdb-with-exit (&rest body)
  "Execute BODY, returning nil on quit or an empty value."
  `(condition-case-unless-debug nil
       ,@body
     ((quit ebdb-empty)
      nil)))

It works for `read-string', but not `read-char':

(ebdb-with-exit (read-string "String: ")) ; C-g returns nil
(ebdb-with-exit (read-char "Character: ")) ; C-g raises an error

I thought this used to work, but maybe I'm mis-remembering. Is there
anything I can do to get this to behave the way I want it to? (Ie,
returning nil).

Thanks,
Eric




             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-25 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-25 22:11 Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-07-26 20:03 ` catching keyboard-quit from read-char Eric Abrahamsen
2018-07-27 16:00   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-27 17:15     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-07-28  1:13       ` Noam Postavsky

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