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25.0.50; Strange errors from dbus-handle-event

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 21313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21313: 25.0.50; Strange errors from dbus-handle-event
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:11:35 +0300

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,  21313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:25:36 +0200
> 
> What's a bit confusing is that it has been handled at least partially:
> Quit was echoed but there was no "real" effect.  So I guess somewhere
> the quit signal emitted by process_quit_flag() was caught by whatever
> code does echo messages and then re-signalled, and the top-level handler
> discarded it because Vquit_flag was nil.

That's what process_quit_flag does.

> The question is if Quit should have been echoed at all?  Well, it's good
> for the user to see that emacs received it but then he'll wonder like me
> why it has no effect.  So maybe it should have echoed "Quit [ignored]"
> or something like that.

These situations are not supposed to happen.  IOW, that was a bug.

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