From: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 754@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#754: Can't cancel dabbrev-expand (M-/) with C-g
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:30:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ADC243.40104@porkrind.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abf61i99.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
Chong Yidong wrote:
>> If I have many buffers open (284 at the moment) and if I run
>> dabbrev-expand (M-/) to expand the word under my buffers then it
>> searches through every buffer and takes an understandably long
>> time. If I mispelled the word fragment then it never has a hope of
>> finding it and I'd like to cancel the operation. But C-g does not work
>> for some reason and so I have to wait a good 5 to 10 seconds for it to
>> finish scanning all my buffers. This gets very frustrating after the
>> third or fourth time.
>
> I don't see why C-g wouldn't work here. Could you apply the following
> patch and see if the problem persists? (This is not a fix; it's an
> attempt to diagnose the problem. As far as I know, quitting should not
> be inhibited here.)
> ;; Walk through the buffers till we find a match.
> ! (let ((inhibit-quit nil)
> ! expansion)
I tried the patch but Emacs behaved the same as without it.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 15:48 bug#754: Can't cancel dabbrev-expand (M-/) with C-g Chong Yidong
2008-08-21 19:30 ` David Caldwell [this message]
2009-01-10 4:41 ` David Caldwell
2011-07-06 17:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 18:05 ` David Caldwell
2011-07-07 17:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-07 18:29 ` David Caldwell
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2008-08-20 23:38 David Caldwell
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