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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-quit-char
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:31:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqsqpvv3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uljxmpwz4.fsf@gnu.org>

> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:07:27 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=)
> > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:07:40 +0200
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > 
> > > This function modifies quit_char, but it will have no visible effect
> > > on typing the quit-char when Emacs waits for input, because the old
> > > keybinding of C-g is still in effect.  For full effect of replacing
> > > C-g with the new quit-char, one needs also to unbind C-g and bind the
> > > new quit-char to keyboard-quit.
> > 
> > This feature is mostly broken, anyway. After the multi-tty merge the
> > quit char can no longer be changed in Emacs under X.
> 
> Do we want it to remain broken?

Btw, it's only partially broken: if you run Emacs on a single TTY, it
still does the job.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-20 13:25 set-quit-char Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 16:07 ` set-quit-char Johan Bockgård
2008-09-20 17:07   ` set-quit-char Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 17:31     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-09-20 17:39       ` set-quit-char Davi Leal

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