bug#48603: 27.2; [PATCH] Quit minibuffers without aborting kmacros

["Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-07-20 14:37 +0200] wrote:

> <miha@kamnitnik.top> writes:
>
>> Good idea, attaching a revised patch (which also adds two NEWS entries.)
>
> Sorry; I forgot all about this.  I've now re-read and tested the patch,
> and it seems to work fine for me, so I've pushed it to Emacs 28.

Thanks, but given the following file quit.el, which is distilled from
the Ivy package's batch-run test suite:


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the patch gives rise to the following change in behaviour.

Before:

  $ emacs -Q -batch -l quit.el

  (quit)
  $ echo $?
  0

After:

  $ emacs -Q -batch -l quit.el
  Quit
  $ echo $?
  255

IOW, it's no longer possible to catch the quit around execute-kbd-macro.
I tried wrapping it in (catch 'exit ...) as well, but to no avail.
Surely it should always be possible to catch a quit condition from Lisp?

Thanks,

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Basil