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bug#27634: 25.2.1; C-g does not quit register-read-with-preview


From: Tino Calancha
Subject: bug#27634: 25.2.1; C-g does not quit register-read-with-preview
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:50:21 +0900 (JST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)



On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Paul Rankin wrote:


One overlooked thing about Tino's solution is that C-g is a keystroke and keyboard-quit 
is a function, which obviously aren't necessarily equivalent. What if the user remaps 
keyboard quit to "7"?
I thought about that, but i discarded because i think binding something
other that `keyboard-quit' to `C-g' is a misuse.  The Emacs manual is full
of mentions to `C-g' as `keyboard-quit'.
There is even the following remark in the tips section:

"don't bind a key sequence ending in @key{C-g}, since that
is commonly used to cancel a key sequence."

If a user want to ignore such kind of advice he/she should
not expect everything will work the same.

I'm gonna do this just to mess with you 😉
Thank you.  Actually i feel quite boring now, so it's OK :-)

Maybe we can fix this so that `register-read-with-preview'
will work with `C-g' bound to `my-cool-foo-command'; but we
cannot assure that no other Emacs part is affected because such
misguided `C-g' binding.  We must encourage users to follow
good practices.

the point about C-g is more what if the user *also* binds keyboard-quit to "7". In this case the user expects 7 to call keyboard-quit, not just C-g.
I see.  Good point!
Paul, what do you think about this?
--- a/lisp/register.el
+++ b/lisp/register.el
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ register-read-with-preview
                       help-chars)
            (unless (get-buffer-window buffer)
              (register-preview buffer 'show-empty)))
+          (when (and (characterp last-input-event)
+                     (eq 'keyboard-quit (key-binding (string 
last-input-event))))
+            (keyboard-quit))
          (if (characterp last-input-event) last-input-event
            (error "Non-character input-event")))

I) Note, that my patch won't work in case our fearless user
   bind "7" to ...:
(lambda () (message "What the hell are you doing?")
                      (keyboard-quit))

... But i don't think we must protect about things like I).

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