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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: question about `quit-char'
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <010901c933bb$d6baff50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufxmpg0iv.fsf@gnu.org>

> > But I still don't understand, I guess. What does the 
> > question have to do with the release? I'm not asking
> > about any Emacs 23 or future features, AFAIK. 
> 
> To support changing quit-char correctly, we need changes that probably
> will not happen before the release.  Until then, you can safely assume
> that quit-char will be C-g, especially on windowed displays.

I see; I didn't know that. Thx.

> > Users in any release can presumably use input methods
> 
> I believe you mean input-mode.  Input methods have nothing to do with
> quit-char.

Yes, sorry.

> > and change the quit character from C-g, no? And if they do that,
> > then my hard-coded binding of C-g won't pick up their key, right?
> 
> Yes, but many other places will not obey a change in quit-char, so you
> are in good company.

Got it. Thx.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 16:57 question about `quit-char' Drew Adams
2008-10-21 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 18:10   ` Drew Adams
2008-10-21 19:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 17:21 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-21 17:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 17:45     ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-21 18:13       ` Drew Adams
2008-10-21 18:47         ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-21 19:01           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-21 19:15             ` Drew Adams
2008-10-21 19:15           ` Drew Adams
2008-10-21 20:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 20:30               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-22  2:47             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-22  2:51               ` Drew Adams
2008-10-22  4:54                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-21 19:37       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 21:12         ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-21 20:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 17:35   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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