From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>, grischka <grishka@gmx.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: System calls without error checks in w32
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 01:35:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimqptPhrmvBdJX0VPOK-ycIJNWIkb_7-sluHO7D@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsk4ybowd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> threads. And why does not C-g break all looping, even those in timers
>> (like fontification)?
>
> That is simply because timer code is normally run in a way that's
> completely hidden from the user, so if the user happens to hit C-g while
> a timer is running, it's probably not because he wants to interrupt the
> timer, but rather because he wants to interrupt the thing he's
> currently doing.
Hm, I always hit C-g to interrupt something that Emacs is doing... ;-)
How about some convention: Three C-g within three seconds will stop
running timers too?
> Timers (and fontification, post-command-hook, ...) should run quickly,
> or otherwise re-enable interrupts using with-local-quit.
Thanks, I see, that is an idea. I had forgotten about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 9:18 System calls without error checks in w32 grischka
2010-06-05 17:15 ` Jason Rumney
2010-06-07 10:37 ` grischka
2010-06-07 14:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-07 15:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 17:21 ` grischka
2010-06-07 17:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 18:54 ` grischka
2010-06-08 0:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-08 0:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-07 23:35 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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2010-05-29 2:38 Lennart Borgman
2010-05-29 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-29 18:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-29 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-29 20:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-29 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-29 21:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 3:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-30 3:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-30 18:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 19:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-30 22:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-30 23:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 0:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-31 0:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 2:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-31 2:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 3:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-31 3:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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