From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Subject: Re: Loss of ticks and marks
Date: 04 Apr 1999 07:57:37 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <orpv5kwt3y.fsf@dcc.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "02 Apr 1999 15:53:47 +0200"
On Apr 2, 1999, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
>> >> 2) I sometimes type C-g when I change my mind about entering such huge
>> >> groups; could this leave internal data in inconsistent state?
>>
>> > Not if you `C-g' at the prompt.
>>
>> But what if I `C-g' while it says `Scoring articles' or `Generating
>> summary'? The problem has never occurred with `C-g' at the prompt.
> Breaking lisp code while it is running is liable to, er, break stuff.
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 :-)
No hope, then? :-(
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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 [this message]
1999-04-05 15:28 ` Justin Sheehy
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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