From: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Loss of ticks and marks
Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:28:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <glmvhfbkrxp.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva's message of "04 Apr 1999 07:57:37 -0300"
Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
> I thought code that must not be interrupted would be protected against
> C-g, so that I couldn't screw things up with the keyboard even if I
> wanted :-)
It's not code that _must_ not be interrupted, it is code that _should_
not be interrupted. It's not a good idea in general, but could be
necessary in some cases. If you send a break signal, you should plan
on dealing with the consequences.
Protecting all sorts of code from C-g would make it very difficult for
users to deal with a situation that actually hung their emacs.
No one prevents you from pulling your computer's plug out of the wall,
but that doesn't make it a good idea...
--
Justin Sheehy
In a cloud bones of steel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-05 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-21 7:59 Alexandre Oliva
1999-03-28 16:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-29 0:56 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-02 13:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-04 10:57 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-05 15:28 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]
1999-04-05 21:24 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-05 21:34 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-04-05 22:08 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-04-06 21:35 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-06 22:02 ` Alan Shutko
1999-04-13 7:08 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-04-17 6:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-17 20:27 ` Alexandre Oliva
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