From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-quit-char Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:31:28 +0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221931908 9924 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2008 17:31:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:31:48 +0000 (UTC) To: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 19:32:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kh6Jx-0000SG-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:32:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kh6Iv-0008DS-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kh6Is-0008DN-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:31:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kh6Iq-0008D8-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kh6Iq-0008D4-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:25769) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kh6Iq-00053W-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.116.246]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K7I00B3S8Q1U140@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:32:25 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103994 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:07:27 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > 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 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.