From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44CE4007.6020904@student.lu.se> <44CE5BB3.7000008@student.lu.se> <44CE8E76.5050802@student.lu.se> <8564hdgfuf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154463022 12466 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2006 20:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, eliz@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 01 22:10:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G80ZA-0005yb-4q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:10:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G80Z9-0006BJ-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G80Y6-0005S1-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G80Y5-0005R7-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G80Y5-0005Qq-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G80b2-0001Io-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G80Y3-0005ti-25; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:09:03 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <8564hdgfuf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:55:20 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57961 Archived-At: >> What does "Cancel" mean, in the context of a Yes/No question? Doesn't >> it mean the same as "No"? >> > Does not C-g cancel the last user command? Not really. It stops it dead in its track, but any progress that has already been made before the dialog will remain. C-g cancels what the command is going to do. Often, when the command asks a question, that is a useful option. People who write commands know that quitting is a likely possibility whenever the command reads input, and generally design the command to do the "real work" after it asks the question.