Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character,
> C-g.
That's a relic from ASCII and TTY days.
These days it really doesn't make sense on non-TTY platforms -- it's
more like a bad joke.
> Also, it works by causing something almost indistiguishable from
> an error.
"almost" means it would not be impossible to distinguish.
Here is a trivial patch to illustrate that it can be done.
(I would use a different method in a real fix).
*** keyboard.c 19 May 2005 09:35:20 +0200 1.825
--- keyboard.c 24 May 2005 09:50:17 +0200
***************
*** 1246,1252 ****
{
Fdiscard_input ();
message_log_maybe_newline ();
! bitch_at_user ();
stream = Qt;
}
--- 1246,1254 ----
{
Fdiscard_input ();
message_log_maybe_newline ();
! if (EQ (XCAR (data), Qquit)
! && !EQ (last_command_char, make_number (7))) /* C-g */
! bitch_at_user ();
stream = Qt;
}
> I see no reason to change this.
WDOT?
--
Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk
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