From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call? Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:14:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87ha1owz2m.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> References: <878un1s91k.fsf@gmail.com> <6eef87dc-82d7-44ae-b056-c8213a55999c@default> <8738d9s4p0.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407395628 9367 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2014 07:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 07:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thorsten Jolitz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 09:13:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XFHtJ-00011a-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43848 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFHtI-0004jI-Si for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFHt1-0004if-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFHsr-0004ey-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:36525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFHsr-0004ed-6y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:13:09 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvMFAJAm41OkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABahDatcwEBAQEBAQamHAGBKXeEBAEFeRALDhMlDwEEDTwTiC0BAxGvG41hAUoNhhkXhXyCIoUBgi0HhEsBBJoRiROHNIYtg1k7Lw Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 07 Aug 2014 09:12:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8738d9s4p0.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99107 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz 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.