GNU bug report logs - #14553
[cygwin] C-g doesn't interrupt (while t)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>

Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 07:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 14553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 14553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14553: 24.3.50; C-g doesn't break inf-loop
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:01:37 +0900

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:44:01 +0200, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> writes:
>> Start Emacs with the -Q option.
>> Eval the form: (while t)

>> Then I get unable to break it.  So is Emacs 24.3.  This may happen
>> only on Cygwin, though.  It makes me hard to debug a code suspected
>> to have an infinite loop.

> That was six years ago.  Are you still seeing this on a modern version
> of Emacs?

C-g still doesn't break (while t) on Emacs 27.0.50 of today, and
also on 26.3.50, 26.1, 25.1 rebuilt recently.  I got used to it,
so I'm not so troubled. ;-)  Thanks for following this up.
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