Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/src/sysdep.c

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:28:33 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > What did you wish to do using emergency escape under a window system?
> 
> Get out of a infinite elisp loop executed while inhibit-quit is non-nil
> (e.g. an infinite loop in a post-command-hook or a timer).
> Yes, I can kill the Emacs process, but it's a real pity to have to do that
> when there's nothing really wrong with it.

IIRC, emergency escape won't help you do anything except the
equivalent of killing Emacs with a fatal signal.