Subject: bug#22743: 25.0.91: set-quit-char does not work if emacs lacks a controlling tty

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:04:09 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 15:49:15 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-10/msg00485.html
> >
> > In which there's a suggestion to remove the feature.
> 
> Indeed (gets my vote), but IIUC you objected at that time
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-10/msg00487.html

Yeah, seven and half years ago!  Lots of water under the bridge since
then.