From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call? Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:33:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87sil8aect.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878un1s91k.fsf@gmail.com> <6eef87dc-82d7-44ae-b056-c8213a55999c@default> <8738d9s4p0.fsf@gmail.com> <87ha1owz2m.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407400455 4558 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2014 08:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 08:34:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 10:34:08 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 1XFJ9D-0007qq-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:34:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44193 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFJ9C-0000rp-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFJ8u-0000kp-Ja for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFJ8m-00081g-BQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFJ8m-00081P-3L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XFJ8g-000795-6y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:33:34 +0200 Original-Received: from g231105104.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.105.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:33:34 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231105104.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:33:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231105104.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mi2nuIiJTBYAcH2/T6iWsOLmR2w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:99108 Archived-At: Nicolas Richard writes: > 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. 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