From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call?
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:33:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sil8aect.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ha1owz2m.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be
Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> 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.
I see.
> Why not simply throw an error ?
>
> (defun foo ()
> (interactive
> (user-error "Interrupted"))
> (message "JJJJJJJJJJJJJJ"))
Mhhh ... because actually no error occured, the function is simply done
at that point, and I did not want to produce an error?
But when called interactively, its more like an (error-) message anyway,
so I might as well use this. Thanks.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 8:33 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
2014-08-07 8:33 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
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