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Re: set-quit-char


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: set-quit-char
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:31:28 +0300

> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:07:27 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > From: address@hidden (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=)
> > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:07:40 +0200
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > This function modifies quit_char, but it will have no visible effect
> > > on typing the quit-char when Emacs waits for input, because the old
> > > keybinding of C-g is still in effect.  For full effect of replacing
> > > C-g with the new quit-char, one needs also to unbind C-g and bind the
> > > new quit-char to keyboard-quit.
> > 
> > This feature is mostly broken, anyway. After the multi-tty merge the
> > quit char can no longer be changed in Emacs under X.
> 
> Do we want it to remain broken?

Btw, it's only partially broken: if you run Emacs on a single TTY, it
still does the job.




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