Re: Three strikes them out

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I just wanted a C-g signal to reach the timers just as it now reaches
> > code running directly in the command loop. I thought that some C-g in a
> > row would be easy to remember for that.
>
> I think that would an _extremely_ bad idea -- I often hit C-g like crazy
> when response is just the tiniest bit slow (or even simply because I'm
> angry at something else).

I would rather say it would be an extremely bad idea to hit C-g like 
that if my idea was implemented ;-)

> If parts of emacs just stopped working, in invisible and hard to debug
> ways, just because the user happened to hit C-g a few too many times, it
> would be very annoying and confusing for users.

Indeed, but still I think it would be useful to be able to do just that 
sometimes. With another key combination and a descent message explaining 
the state ...