From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, eliz@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1G80Y3-0005ti-25@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8564hdgfuf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:55:20 +0200)
>> What does "Cancel" mean, in the context of a Yes/No question? Doesn't
>> it mean the same as "No"?
>>
> Does not C-g cancel the last user command?
Not really. It stops it dead in its track, but any progress that has
already been made before the dialog will remain.
C-g cancels what the command is going to do. Often, when the command
asks a question, that is a useful option. People who write commands
know that quitting is a likely possibility whenever the command reads
input, and generally design the command to do the "real work" after it
asks the question.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 17:38 Canceling dialogues Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 20:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 6:21 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-31 20:49 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-31 21:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-31 23:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 5:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-01 6:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 20:09 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-08-01 4:35 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-01 6:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:43 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-31 19:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-31 19:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 5:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-01 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-31 22:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 6:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 6:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-02 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-02 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-03 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-03 9:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-03 19:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-03 22:16 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 8:36 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-01 8:58 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-08-01 12:06 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-03 10:14 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-08-03 11:32 ` Mathias Dahl
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