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From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: unwind-protect and inhibit-quit
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:10:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFsi02Qw9X1_LJqHf8vA3GCHuqVErShYt89j3AKrAvoCHaLhsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eeby680s.fsf@gnu.org>

>
> > That paragraph also mentions that “there is no easy way to fix this
> > bug”.  Is that statement still true or can this issue be resolved by
> > setting “inhibit-quit” in current Emacs versions:
>
> You could use inhibit-quit, but that is generally a bad idea from the
> UI point of view, when invoking potentially long-running functions:
> you are preventing the user from interrupting that long function.  For
> example, suppose the FTP command stalls for some reason.
>

Now I'm curious too... Would something like this work?

 (let ((inhibit-quit t))
   (setq process
      (let ((inhibit-quit nil))
         (ftp-setup-buffer host file))))



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-16  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-15 15:14 unwind-protect and inhibit-quit Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16  7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16  8:10   ` Thibaut Verron [this message]
2021-07-16 11:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 14:46       ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 14:56         ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 15:00     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 20:01       ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-16 20:06         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 21:30       ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 21:37         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-17 11:52           ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-17  6:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-17 15:46           ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-17 16:34             ` Eli Zaretskii

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