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From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-quit-char
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:07:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijk5d6ls1f.fsf@remote5.student.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uod2josnu.fsf@gnu.org

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.

   "This function only has an effect on the controlling tty of the Emacs
    process."

-- 
Johan Bockgård





  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20 16:07 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 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2008-09-20 17:07   ` set-quit-char Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 17:31     ` set-quit-char Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 17:39       ` set-quit-char Davi Leal

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