Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/src/sysdep.c

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan <address@hidden> writes:

>> What did you wish to do using emergency escape under a window system?
>
> Get out of a infinite elisp loop executed while inhibit-quit is non-nil
> (e.g. an infinite loop in a post-command-hook or a timer).
> Yes, I can kill the Emacs process, but it's a real pity to have to do that
> when there's nothing really wrong with it.
> Of course, all those cases are bugs we should fix, but they do happen,
> sometimes while writing/testing/debugging code.

You can also attach a debugger and set inhibit-quit to nil.

Andreas.

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