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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call?
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:14:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha1owz2m.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738d9s4p0.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:27 +0200")

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
> That works, thanks!
> Did not know about `top-level'. 

There is an obvious shortcoming : if you're in the middle of a recursive
edit, you'll be back to top level.

Why not simply throw an error ?

(defun foo ()
  (interactive
   (user-error "Interrupted"))
  (message "JJJJJJJJJJJJJJ")) 

-- 
Nico.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-06 19:38 How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-08-06 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2014-08-06 21:12   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-08-07  7:14     ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2014-08-07  8:33       ` Thorsten Jolitz

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