From unknown Wed Jun 18 00:25:34 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#17293 <17293@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#17293 <17293@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 24.4.50; C-g often fails in minibuffer under X Reply-To: bug#17293 <17293@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:25:34 +0000 retitle 17293 24.4.50; C-g often fails in minibuffer under X reassign 17293 emacs submitter 17293 "T. V. 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[71.202.188.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id yw3sm60674342pbc.69.2014.04.18.09.04.50 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:04:50 -0700 Message-Id: <878ur239p9.fsf@gmail.com> From: raman To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: 24.4.50; C-g often fails in minibuffer under X From: "T. V. Raman" x-attribution: tvrReply-to: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) I remember Stefan addressing this a while ago, but it appears to bite me only when running under X. Specifically: When running under X (Ubuntu Precise) and using StumpWM as the window manager (neither of those specific bits might be relevant) often, if I have a minibuffer completion up, hitting C-g does not dismiss the minibuffer, I actually have to switch away from the minibuffer and type M-x top-level to get emacs back to being normal. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Apr 24 16:06:01 2014 Received: (at 17293) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Apr 2014 20:06:01 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57495 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WdPuC-0002tI-9b for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:06:00 -0400 Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:39678) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WdPu9-0002t7-GV for 17293@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:05:58 -0400 Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E7184E32; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:05:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD8B1E5B7C; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6E673B43B7; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Stefan Monnier To: raman Subject: Re: bug#17293: 24.4.50; C-g often fails in minibuffer under X Message-ID: References: <878ur239p9.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:05:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878ur239p9.fsf@gmail.com> (raman's message of "Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:04:50 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 17293 Cc: 17293@debbugs.gnu.org, "T. V. Raman" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) > often, if I have a minibuffer completion up, hitting C-g does > not dismiss the minibuffer, I actually have to switch away from If you're in the minibuffer, then C-g should normally dismiss the minibuffer, yes. Of course, we have the problem that C-g only does that if it runs keyboard-quit (i.e. if Emacs was idle), and not if it signals "quit" (i.e. Emacs was busy with something). So apparently, there's been more cases where Emacs is "busy" (probably just waiting in a sit-for or something). So to fix this, we need to figure out what that C-g interrupts. 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I've been chasing a separate problem in emacs at work that is keeping emacs busy --see below. I run emacs-jabber to connect to Google Talk. I have a large number of contacts there -- order of magnitude 100s -- many of whom constantly keep changing status. emacs-jabber uses a continues fsm ping mechanism and if I leave emacs idle ie dont touch the keyboard, profiler shows that emacs is permanently busy in that handler. I've been trying various advice tricks to keep that fsm tick from happening except when jabber roster is selected, and surprize surprize that got the c-g problem to diminish -- I could not figure out why till I saw your note today. Stefan Monnier writes: > > often, if I have a minibuffer completion up, hitting C-g does > > not dismiss the minibuffer, I actually have to switch away from > > If you're in the minibuffer, then C-g should normally dismiss the > minibuffer, yes. Of course, we have the problem that C-g only does that > if it runs keyboard-quit (i.e. if Emacs was idle), and not if it signals > "quit" (i.e. Emacs was busy with something). > > So apparently, there's been more cases where Emacs is "busy" (probably > just waiting in a sit-for or something). So to fix this, we need to > figure out what that C-g interrupts. > > > Stefan From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 26 09:15:45 2015 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Dec 2015 14:15:45 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37250 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aCpdI-0006Eh-W9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:15:45 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:45213) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aCpdH-0006CO-2F for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:15:43 -0500 Received: from 2.150.58.24.tmi.telenormobil.no ([2.150.58.24] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aCpcr-0008FU-By for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:15:17 +0100 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:15:16 +0100 Message-Id: <8760zlz47f.fsf@gnus.org> To: control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Subject: control message for bug #17293 X-MailScanner-ID: 1aCpcr-0008FU-By X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1451744117.754@c94Jf9bz8LoIZvICq2TGwA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) close 17293 From unknown Wed Jun 18 00:25:34 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. 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