From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7742: 24.0.50; C-g does not dismiss popup menus Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:15:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83shs6f0xs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9CC22D77EC544AE5AFAE362E67853782@us.oracle.com> <87oa2uurpe.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475997394 15382 195.159.176.226 (9 Oct 2016 07:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 07:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7742@debbugs.gnu.org To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 09 09:16:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8LK-00024V-83 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8LI-0007Q4-HL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8L9-0007Pz-Hv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8L4-0008M4-Qv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8L4-0008Lz-O7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8L4-0006Wj-GB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:16:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 07:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7742 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 7742-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7742.147599731325009 (code B ref 7742); Sun, 09 Oct 2016 07:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7742) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Oct 2016 07:15:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49243 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8KH-0006VJ-Dz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56269) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8KG-0006V4-5I for 7742@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8K6-0007y5-Hi for 7742@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59289) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8K6-0007xM-EF; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3715 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bt8K4-00067h-Bj; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:15:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87oa2uurpe.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (npostavs@users.sourceforge.net) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:124258 Archived-At: > From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 23:27:57 -0400 > Cc: 7742@debbugs.gnu.org > > > C-mouse-3 in some buffer, to bring up the popup menu. C-g does not > > dismiss the menu - you are trapped in the menu dialog/interaction. You > > must do something like click mouse-1 outside the menu to dismiss it. > > > > Admittedly, it is usually easier in this context to click mouse-1 than > > to hit C-g on the keyboard. Still, C-g should DTRT. > > > > (I'm guessing that this is hard to fix or it would have been fixed by > > now. But I don't know that, and it's good to record the bug anyway, > > even if we don't intend to try to fix it anytime soon.) > > According to https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24596#8 > > C-g doesn't work on a GUI frame because the menu is controlled by > Windows, not by Emacs, and Windows doesn't know about C-g. IOW, > this is a limitation we can do very little about. > > So I'm marking this as wontfix. Right. Btw, it's not true that one is "trapped", pressing ESC pops down the menu and gets you out.