Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:22:40 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Cc: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm), bde@zeta.org.au, chris@chris.netmonger.net, ports@FreeBSD.org, sprice@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: C-g, emacs and 2.2/3.0 Message-ID: <19970427192240.IE15960@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9704271544.AA26620@wavehh.hanse.de>; from Martin Cracauer on Apr 27, 1997 17:44:49 %2B0200 References: <199704270744.PAA04711@spinner.DIALix.COM> <9704271544.AA26620@wavehh.hanse.de>
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As Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > The biggest problem was that it interacted very badly with certain
> > important things, eg: make. ie: you press ^C and the jobs that make is
> > running split off and keep running in the background.
>
> Sorry, I don't quite understand how these characters are to be
> processed and what the shell has to do with it. Isn't C-c a character
> that is "handled" by the system (shell, crt0 or whatever) and C-g is a
> character that is set up by the application itself?
Nope. Emacs sets c_cc[VINTR] = c_cc[VQUIT] = CTRL('g'). This way it
gets an asynchronuous notification of the user hitting abort.
--
cheers, J"org
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