The previous message was incomplete, and sent by accident. I have a complete

recipe now. Both forms are meant to be evaluated C-M-x, and followed by

abort-recursive-edit, or keyboard-quit.

;; QUIT gets inserted, and a Quit message is displayed.

(condition-case error

    (sleep-for 5)

  (quit (goto-char (point-max))

        (insert "QUIT")))

;; With abort-recursive-edit

;; QUIT doesn't get inserted. Quit isn't displayed in the mini-buffer

;; With keyboard-quit

;; QUIT doesn't get inserted. Quit is displayed in the mini-buffer

(condition-case error

    (let ((inhibit-quit t))

      (sleep-for 5))

  (quit (goto-char (point-max))

        (insert "QUIT")))

I understand why "QUIT" might not be displayed -- the signal is not guaranteed to be sent immediately after then end of (let). But, shouldn't abort-recursive-edit also cause Quit to be displayed in the minibuffer? 

It so happens that I have abort-recursive-edit bound to C-g, and ((inhibit-quit t)) seems to discard all sent "C-g"s.

Evgeni

GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4) of 2013-11-02 on ubuntu