help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: What is the difference between C-g and M-x keyboard-quit?


From: Dan Espen
Subject: Re: What is the difference between C-g and M-x keyboard-quit?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:31:29 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> there /must/ be some difference, since C-g beeps and M-x keyboard-quit
> does not.  What is the reason for that?  What is exactly the difference?

C-h k C-g seems clear enough:

It is bound to C-g.

(keyboard-quit)

Signal a `quit' condition.
During execution of Lisp code, this character causes a quit directly.
At top-level, as an editor command, this simply beeps.

-- 
Dan Espen


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]