From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: an unknown but finite number of C-g's to get back to top level Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:54:16 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87sl2xlwrf.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87zlx8q6lf.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195776304 31693 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2007 00:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 01:05:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IvM2L-00017o-UR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:04:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvM27-0005d1-Rs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvM22-0005cC-4k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:04:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvM20-0005bg-UH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:04:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvM20-0005bd-R3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IvM20-0007ep-77 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IvM1u-000HG5-61; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:04:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87zlx8q6lf.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:40:44 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 233cb89e4cdd9c68f6fe52a505261b56 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1823 [Nov 22 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 19 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17049 Archived-At: > I am pleased to find a real bug: > C-\ runs the command toggle-input-method. > By accident, please type C-\ C-\ C-\ C-\ C-\ C-\ C-\ > You are prompted for Input method: > You hit C-g, but the prompt just pops back up again. > Unless you realize that you hit several C-\'s and not just one, > you get the impression that emacs is now broken, especially after a > couple more C-g's. > > Maybe one C-g should put us back at 'top level', in cases like these. > > Or maybe after each C-g, instead of saying "Quit", say "Quit layer 7" > or some count indicator. Yes, that would be better than sometimes > blowing lots of input when going to top-level. Emacs CVS now has a new mode `minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode' that displays the current minibuffer depth as a string "[#]" at the beginning of the minibuffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/