From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Vincent Belaïche" <vincentb1@users.sourceforge.net>,
26395@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26395: 25.1; ses.el git master, inhibit-quit on some cell evaluations
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:57:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1c5nmo2.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k26v1wkb.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:07:32 +1000")
Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin@yahoo.com.au> writes:
> In debian packaged emacs 25.1 but git head ses.el, it seems cell
> evaluations sometimes run with inhibit-quit. For example, initial entry
>
> emacs -Q /tmp/foo.ses
> Ret # enter formula
> inhibit-quit Ret # the formula
> =>
> displays t
>
> I hoped no inhibit-quit while running formulas (and thought there wasn't
> previously), as protection against slow or accidentally infinite forms.
>
> I noticed this in my stock charting program where I communicate with a
> database sub-process by accept-process-input, and that func doesn't run
> under inhibit-quit. I could with-local-quit and bail out in a sensible
> way, but perhaps there's not meant to be inhibit-quit anyway.
Yes, ses.el binds inhibit-quit all over the place, presumably out of an
overabundance of caution (not wanting to mess up the display). But it
shouldn't do that while computing the formulas, you'd think.
I've Cc'd the maintainer; perhaps he can weigh in here.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-08 2:07 bug#26395: 25.1; ses.el git master, inhibit-quit on some cell evaluations Kevin Ryde
2019-07-26 9:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-27 14:20 ` Vincent Belaïche
2019-07-27 15:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 0:37 ` Kevin Ryde
2019-07-28 15:11 ` Vincent Belaïche
2019-07-28 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
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