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From: chad <chadpbrown@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:20:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <162CA738-6205-4D86-B263-B1C6408950BD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9106E7.5010902@gmail.com>

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On Mar 28, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 
> As covered in another branch of this thread, C-g *is* often ambiguous. It's inherently racy when we allow normal quitting of background work. Users would send this signal to Emacs only after noticing an uninterruptable hang.  Is that not clear?

If the method works out in practice, how would people feel about a patch to emacsclient adding a flag to send such signals?

*Chad



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-28  7:14 [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2 Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 12:32   ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-28 14:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 14:49       ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-28 13:38   ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 14:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 17:23       ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 18:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 19:29           ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 19:41             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 19:49               ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 19:52                 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-28 19:56                   ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 20:06                     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-28 20:12                       ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 20:45                         ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-28 21:13                           ` In praise of font-lock (Was: Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2) Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 21:27                             ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-28 20:10                     ` [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2 chad
2011-03-28 22:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 22:08                   ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-28 22:20                     ` chad [this message]
2011-03-29 17:55                       ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-29 18:14                         ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25  2:16                         ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25  9:23                           ` joakim
2011-04-25  9:33                             ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 13:32                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 18:21                             ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 18:43                               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 14:47                             ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-29 13:23         ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-29 14:25           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29 14:47             ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-29 21:37               ` Stefan Monnier

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