From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Random idea: Debugging `quit'
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:38:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aaab6t4t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m28vpvv7ca.fsf@linux-m68k.org
11/09/11 09:58, Andreas Schwab
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> So wouldn't it be nice if we could say, for instance, `C-u C-g' to get a
>> debugging `quit'? Or perhaps `C-u 6 6 6 C-g', or whatever deemed
>> necessary to avoid annoying people...
>
> That's really hard to do since quit-char is very special. It can only
> be a single character and it is handled very low in the keyboard
> handler.
>
> Andreas.
Is it feasible to instead add a third value to debug-on-quit that'd only
popup a debug window if emacs isn't waiting on user input? So
"problematic" uses of C-g (break out of an infinite loop, or external
process) would run the debugger, but C-x C-f C-g wouldn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-11 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-11 4:01 Random idea: Debugging `quit' Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 7:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-11 14:38 ` Antoine Levitt [this message]
2011-09-11 15:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 15:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-11 23:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-11 11:25 ` Sean Sieger
2011-09-11 16:51 ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-11 21:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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