From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the difference between C-g and M-x keyboard-quit?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:31:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mta2jv$7d4$3@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1208.1442348628.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> there /must/ be some difference, since C-g beeps and M-x keyboard-quit
> does not. What is the reason for that? What is exactly the difference?
C-h k C-g seems clear enough:
It is bound to C-g.
(keyboard-quit)
Signal a `quit' condition.
During execution of Lisp code, this character causes a quit directly.
At top-level, as an editor command, this simply beeps.
--
Dan Espen
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2015-09-15 21:31 ` Dan Espen [this message]
2015-09-16 6:27 ` What is the difference between C-g and M-x keyboard-quit? Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-15 20:23 Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-15 23:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-16 6:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-16 7:11 ` Bob Proulx
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